Check your meters -- sunny f16 weather

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Nick Merritt
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All in the northern hemisphere -- here we are just days from the summer solstice. We have been having beautiful sunny weather the last several days. Get out there and check your meters -- if it's not sunny f16 for you in clear weather, there's something wrong!
 
Where are you, the Shetlands? :) I'd say that this time of year, it doesn't much matter, though I expect if you're on the Arctic Circle it's never really sunny f16 -- though it might be sunny f5.6 at 0200....
 
38th parallel, perfect sunny 16, at noon, full sun to my back , two meters: Sekonic Master (selenium), Sekonic L308s.

EDIT: I went out after my post and my digital camera was very different. Luckily I don't use my digital camera as a meter for film.
 
Cueto, Cuba 20th parallel is "sunny 22" country. Photographing a lot in Central Florida and in Cuba, it clearly seems to be a stop brighter. Meter readings always indicate a stop brighter that I would expect in the US.
 
Bob Michaels said:
Cueto, Cuba 20th parallel is "sunny 22" country. Photographing a lot in Central Florida and in Cuba, it clearly seems to be a stop brighter. Meter readings always indicate a stop brighter that I would expect in the US.
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In Panama it was hard to meter especially at noon, we were about 11 or 12. You have to change everything to get full toned image: development, agitation, exposure, well you don't have to change development temperature.
 
I have one or two very elderly exposure charts and calculators in the heap somewhere and one or two of them give three latitudes and so three versions of the correct exposure. From memory 60°, 50° and 40° but there might be one that includes 30°...



Regards,David
 
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