----- Original Message ----- From: "J and K Messervy" Subject: Simplified zone exposure system for colour transparency
> I've loaded the P67 with Velvia 100F and plan to take some shots over > the > weekend. I'm still in the learning stage with the camera and metering > prism. > > I've been googling exposure systems, etc and it seems a modified zone > system > should work pretty well. Basically, it seems the advice is that slide > film > has a range of about zone 3 to zone 7. Therefore, if I spot meter > with my > *istDL on a spot in the scene that I want to set as the lightest tone > with > detail, it will give an exposure setting for zone 5 (mid grey). I > should > therefore increase that by 3 stops (two stops to reach zone 7 and one > more > to account for the DL being iso 200 and the film being iso 100) and > that > should put the metered part of the scene into zone 7. Then, providing > the > scene doesn't also have shadows too deep for the film to handle, I > should > get a good exposure. > > Am I on the right track? Pretty close. If there are white clouds in the sky, meter them and presume Zone VII Why not use the meter prism? William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
