I'd had my first camera for a week, and was on board a ship off Funchal, Madeira, and wanted to take a shot of the harbour and city lights. I had no idea how to set the camera, and an experienced fellow passenger helped me out. He asked two questions : "What film are you using?" - K32 "What's the lens?" - Colour-Lanthar f2.8 "Ok - set it at 1/30th and f2.8" - which I did, and it worked perfectly!
On another occasion, a couple of years later, the sun was setting through light rain, and, from a very high hill, and, with my non-metering Pentax SV, decided 1/8th at f1.8 might work, this time on K64. It did too, and is one of what I consider my best images: PDML-ers may recall it from a PESO or gallery entry a long time ago. So we did get good images by guess and by God, although we also had a lot of misses! John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: Alan C <c...@lantic.net> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 7:21 PM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: K3-III metering Sunny 16 is more applicable to tropical locations with bright light. Perhaps something like Sunny 11 in Temperate climates? Those were starting points for 100ASA film at 1/100 sec. From there it was all mental arithmetic or the use of tables. Alan C On 26-Apr-23 08:34 AM, l...@red4est.com wrote: > Either film is a lot more forgiving, or our standards were a lot lower. > > On April 25, 2023 11:07:37 PM PDT, jco...@iinet.net.au wrote: >> "Sunny F16" >> "Cloudy F8" >> "Dark F5.6" >> >> All on Kodachrome 64 - it's a wonder we got so many keepers! >> >> John in Brisbane >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ralf R Radermacher <fotor...@gmx.de> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2023 11:57 PM >> To: pdml@pdml.net >> Subject: Re: K3-III metering >> >> Am 25.04.23 um 15:45 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi: >> >>> My best "meter" for difficult situations like that is a Kodak Pocket Photo >>> Guide. It has an exposure calculator based on descriptions of scene type, >>> and I've found its suggestions to be right on the mark nearly all the time. >> "f8 and be there" :-) >> >> Ralf >> >> -- >> Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : >> http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com >> Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf >> Fotos : https://www.fotocommunity.de/user_photos/770012 >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email >> to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link >> directly above and follow the directions. >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email >> to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the >> link directly above and follow the directions. >> -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
