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Easy Exposure Settings for Safari Can you suggest a quick and simple way to ensure correct exposure? I use a fuly manual Pentax K1000. My main subjects will be wildlife (safari soon). At the moment I generally take a meter reading from grass or a similar tone and set my shutter and f number to suit, this seems to work quite well on most subjects. Should I then adjust the settings further for very light or dark subjects? I don't need to have perfectly exposed photos but I need them quite good so that I can use them for references to my paintings. All help appreciated.
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Piper Lehman |
Jason, Check out Kodak's website and do a search in their library of info. They have at least one chart that lists their suggested exposures for existing light photos for both negative and slide films. You can download this chart in PDF for printing. Not sure, but this is the address I have as a header on my printout: www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/products/techInfo/ac61/
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John A. Lind |
Jason, The link PC provided is a good one for estimating "available light" exposures for indoor and night photography. For outdoor daylight exposure estimating, see this Q/A thread from a while ago. It contains details about the "sunny-16" rule. Note that the examples in it are based on ISO 100 film and you need to adjust for the film speed you are using. Also . . . Kodak prints exposure recommendations on the inside of their film boxes and all the major film manufacturers have similar information in the data sheet for the film. These data sheets are available online at the Kodak, Fuji, Agfa and Ilford Web sites. Sometimes you have to poke around a little to find them, but they're there. -- John
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