Sounds fairly clumsy to me, but this is how we can learn. Suggest you give it a try, make sure to bracket your exposures on either side of the exposure you determine, then look at the results to see how well the method worked. Have fun! :-)
Mi Doug On 11/02/06 04:53, "J and K Messervy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

