[OT] Looking for Exposure tables

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Hi,


I remember to have seen by the past printed tables allowing to approximate the exposure regarding lighting factors such as : country, season, hour, weather, etc etc These tables were pretty old (from 1920-1940) if I recall, and some factors may have change, but they are still usefull.


Does somebody have such a table ? I would be forever greatfull if I could get a scan :)

Thanks a lot !

Regards,

JCM
 
Great :)

Great :)

Thank you Thank you Thank you !!!!!!!

This is what I wanted :)


NB: I am still interested if someone has a version of these vintage tables, since they give a lot of details on lighting conditions.
 
Hi,


Thank you for your help Rover. Your link is about a conversion tool. I was rather looking at a way to estimate exposure without a lightmeter.

Thank you Paul for this very interesting table. In fact it is very close from the one of Fred Parker (see above), but gives some interesting details. This is what I would like to get but with more sample of lighting cases ex: TV shot, indoor portrait with clouds outside, under one tree : substract 2 diaph, etc etc.

Thanks to you again !

:)
 
jcm0 said:
Hi,
Thank you for your help Rover. Your link is about a conversion tool. I was rather looking at a way to estimate exposure without a lightmeter.
Thanks to you again !
:)
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jcm0,
Yes; it converts what you see into useful f/stop and speed combinations.
The tool that Rover linked you to is what you have been describing. It has a pretty long list of lighting conditions and then a dial thing that takes those conditins and gives f/stop and shutter speed choices.
It also has zone sytem readings. And f/stop and speeds that work well for pinhole photography.
I have one that I've used for quite a while now. Probably the best $18 I've spent on photo gear.
Worth looking at again, I think.
Rob
 
Rbiemer, Rover: You are damned right !!! I have seen the list of lighting conditions : very interested.

Thank you very much for your help :) !!!

Regards,

JCM
 
I found something like what you're after a while ago, but it was falling apart and faded, so I made myself some new versions. They're split between an LV table and an EV table. I use the LV table to judge the amount of light, which gives me the EV at ISO 100, and then I use the EV table to convert that to shutter speed / aperture settings. Really useful when trying to meter a scene without a meter!

http://www.matteaton.com/LVTable.pdf
http://www.matteaton.com/EVTable.pdf

Thats links to both of them hosted on my webspace. They're PDFs so you can resize and print freely.

Hope thats useful!
 
I have one too that I made based on Fred Parker's chart and some ones I devised out of film box charts a few years back. I tape it to the back of my cameras.I attached it here in pdf.

Nothing revolutionary. That slide-rule is awesome! Totally 1950s.

cheers
doug
 

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Yeah, thats a really useful table!

Too bad mine are too big to tape to my cameras, unless I were to buy a 10x8, in which case i'd probably just use a light meter anyway!

Good job!
 
Great table, Doug. I made a similar one a while ago.

Here's a tip: if there are situations that you normally find yourself shooting in that are not listed in any of the tables available, meter it once with a metered camera or handheld meter, then record it for subsequent times.
 
Hi guys.

I took some of the tables mentioned here, found some more on the internet... compiled them together and I'd like to share it with you.

Hope it's useful at least to someone...
 

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