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Which Meter Reading Should I Use? Hi, When using Bowens Studio lights in home studio room 10ft by 15ft, I place Key light 45degs to one side plus fill 45degrees to other. My Key light is set at half power and gives reading of F8 at 100asa, Fill is set to quarter power and gives reading of 5.6. When I take reading with both lights powered on I get reading of F8 plus half. My question is, should I use F8 or F9? Cheers.
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John A. Lind |
Ray, If "f/8 plus half" means a half stop narrower aperture than f/8, then use f/9. Since f/9 is 1/3rd stop tighter than f/8, that's a 1/6th stop overexposure and even with chromes you'd be extremely hard pressed to tell the difference (I'd bet money you wouldn't). With negative films, if I'm within a half-stop, I don't worry about it.
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Vik Orenstein |
Hi, Ray! John's advice is good. I would only add one comment -- if you're shooting black and white film, you generally want to overexpose slightly to clean up your highlights, especially when shooting people. So I'd go with f8. For chromes I like to underexpose a little for maximum richness and color saturation.
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Gregg Vieregge |
It doesn't matter. There is so much latitude with todays film that a good lab will clean it up with no problem A little over exposure is good with film. Under exposure is good with digital. Shoot away and have a lab with a view monitor for color corection do the rest. (no computer analyzer labs)
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Gregg Vieregge |
It doesn't matter. There is so much latitude with todays film that a good lab will clean it up with no problem A little over exposure is good with film. Under exposure is good with digital. Shoot away and have a lab with a view monitor for color corection do the rest. (no computer analyzer labs)
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