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OOPS - think I screwed that query up enough to answer my own question! 500 it is - that will underexpose! The older I get the more I screw up the denominator and numerator!
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your call, but according to the 'rule' you use 1/500 of a sec.
joe
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wlewisiii
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You use the shutter speed closest to what 1/ISO would give you. In your case, if you have a nice bright sunny day without any shadows or clouds, then with ISO 400 loaded, you would use 1/500th at f16.
A much better explaination is at http://www.fredparker.com/ultexp1.htm I really don't know of a better way to learn Sunny 16 than to read that page and then burn film. Waste film really. Shoot like mad until what you see in your mind's eye is what is there on the neg. I just bought a box of 100 sheets of 4x5 ISO100 film. If I get more than 4 keepers out of that box, I'll be estatic, because it's cheap film bought with the full intention of learning. Which means errors. LOTS of errors. Because the only way to learn photography is to burn film. For all I love about digital, it's not the way to teach photography. You have to hit the student in the pocket book. When one little mistake in an exposure costs up to $5 a pop (chrome film plus dev), it really concentrates a poor student's mind like nothing else I am aware of... :O
Eh, I've blathered enough. Sorry joe.
William
A much better explaination is at http://www.fredparker.com/ultexp1.htm I really don't know of a better way to learn Sunny 16 than to read that page and then burn film. Waste film really. Shoot like mad until what you see in your mind's eye is what is there on the neg. I just bought a box of 100 sheets of 4x5 ISO100 film. If I get more than 4 keepers out of that box, I'll be estatic, because it's cheap film bought with the full intention of learning. Which means errors. LOTS of errors. Because the only way to learn photography is to burn film. For all I love about digital, it's not the way to teach photography. You have to hit the student in the pocket book. When one little mistake in an exposure costs up to $5 a pop (chrome film plus dev), it really concentrates a poor student's mind like nothing else I am aware of... :O
Eh, I've blathered enough. Sorry joe.
William
Nikkor lenses tend to have high contrast. I have found that 1/2 to 1 stop of overexposure has saved a lot of pictures. The colors tend to saturate, and shadow areas come out somewhat dark using "normal rules". Experiment some, and try both the 1/250th to over-expose and 1/500th "sunny 16" rule. I use a Weston Master II meter, and measure the subject up close. If I meter the whole scene, I tend to open up 1 stop from what is indicated using the accurate 50 year old meter. With a Summarit, lower contrast, I do not do this.
VinceC
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The difference between 1/500 and 1/400 is actually quite negligible. If you think about it a moment, it's the difference between 1/4 and 1/5 or 4 seconds and 5 seconds. It's really barely enough to affect exposure.
But Brian is right. On Sunny 16 or in any metering situation, it's always safer to slightly over-expose negative films.
But Brian is right. On Sunny 16 or in any metering situation, it's always safer to slightly over-expose negative films.
