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What do those who record aperture and shutter speed actually get from their notes?

Development data I can understand, and you can do it easily and comfortably in the darkroom. But not shooting data. What are exposure meters (and brains) for, after all?

Cheers,

R.
 
Roger Hicks said:
What do those who record aperture and shutter speed actually get from their notes?

Development data I can understand, and you can do it easily and comfortably in the darkroom. But not shooting data. What are exposure meters (and brains) for, after all?

Cheers,

R.
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1/8 or 1/15 might explain the lack of sharpnes in case I’m not sure why (just as an example of “what”)... but in general yes - I care more about my developing notes. I do not take any shooting notes unless camera gives it (like GA645)
 
Roger Hicks said:
What do those who record aperture and shutter speed actually get from their notes?

Development data I can understand, and you can do it easily and comfortably in the darkroom. But not shooting data. What are exposure meters (and brains) for, after all?

Cheers,

R.
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From my discussions with a wide variety of photographers, shutter/fstop/zone seems to be very important to document for large format (sheet film) shooters.

A few 135/120 shooters have mentioned wanting to record this data as well, but I personally don't see the point when you're shooting that many frames. I suppose if you treat each frame as if it were a sheet, I begin to see the point.

Any 135/120 shooters out there that actually document fstop and shutter speed for each frame?
 
I once tried to keep a written log of exposure information. It lasted for perhaps one roll of film.
It was far too tedious. IMO the pleasure of 35mm film gear is speed and ease of handling.

Chris
 
I've made up my own kind of eFieldNote template in Microsoft OneNote. For each new roll of film I number the note and record camera, film type, lens selection (several table lines),date started and date ended for the roll and for each lens. I give each note a number and write that number on the negative sleeve. Sometimes I write in what the subject of the first few frames is so I can identify the roll when I get it back from the lab. I don't record data for each exposure, and since all my film is done by a lab I don't have development notes.
 
Sometimes the exposure information is useful then working with new equipment or film... as well as when doing IR / ND testing... Recording the compensation is sometime helpful when shooting at night. As a rule I don't record information in the field YMMV ; )

Since I test from time to time I would want that as an option in any application I might consider...
 
I have a few of these: https://analogbook.com/?v=93b46a3fc67d

These are well thought out, but more than I can handle. The Darkroom book is probably of more utility for me in terms of keeping track of the age of my Stop, Fix and Developer solutions, what I used and all the details.

Keeping field notes, getting a ref # on the roll, and then keeping track of that suitably through development, this has been something I haven't worked out in an easy way. Some sort of "sticky" based way would be better, but very expensive (duh!).
 
roscoetuff said:
Keeping field notes, getting a ref # on the roll, and then keeping track of that suitably through development, this has been something I haven't worked out in an easy way. Some sort of "sticky" based way would be better, but very expensive (duh!).
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hm, i might be working on a solution to your problem. :D
 
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