It was a 1/250 at f5.6 Morning

[rover]

Well, the Wein Cell in my Canonet finally died, of course at the worst time when I was about to go out to shoot after scouting my subject yesterday. I had ISO 100, 200 and 800 film with me and I was trying to see if I could use the 800 on this cloudy day, but the needle was pegged. So, this is what I did.

The big storm that has been dumping on the Carolinas, Mid Atlantic and I guess earlier the Mid West is on its way north so this morning was a "bright" cloudy day. I think I benefited from the nice even lighting. I decided to try to wing it with the Sunny 16 rule as a basis for exposure. I loaded the ISO 200 film, set the shutter to 1/250 then thought of aperture. I knew f/16 wouldn't do it, so figured on a two stop adjustment. Then I wanted to err on the side of over exposure and the 1/250 is not 1/200, so I went to f/5.6. I liked the thought so much I just shot the whole roll at the same setting. That is where the even cloudy lighting comes in.

I think I will be fine given the latitude of the film, Fujicolor Super HQ. It was a fun experiment, and I will see if I am becoming a photographer.

 

[SolaresLarrave]

Print film can be amazing... I remember once, when I had my Contax on a trip to Kentucky, inadvertently did something that triggered the shutter release at 1 full second while I had Konica ISO 50 in the camera.

The photo came up looking fairly well, I was suprised. Had it been a slide it would have come up totally transparent.

BTW, you can replace the battery in that Canonet. Just get a PX675 (I believe) at Wally world and that'll get your Canonet going again! 😀

 

[lars]

Re: It was a 1/250 at f5.6 Morning

The big storm that has been dumping on the Carolinas, Mid Atlantic and I guess earlier the Mid West is on its way north so this morning was a "bright" cloudy day.

Before reading your guesstimate, I did my own gut-check of what I would use (of course, I had to imagine what your weather was really like) and came up with around 1/60 or 1/125 at f8, for ISO 400. So ISO 200 would be 1/125 at f5.6, which is a stop away from what you used.

Since shooting with my Bessa R, I've found that I'm much better at guessing the correct exposure than I used to be. Prior to metering, I've been evaluating the light mentally and the vast majority of the time, I've within a stop and many times, I'm dead on. Of course, that's probably because I shoot under the same few conditions quite often, but hey, if it works, it works.
;-)


...lars