68degrees
Well-known
Does sunny 16 depend on the focal length? For example if I have a 50mm lens, sunny day, 100 speed film. Settings should be 100th at f16. Would that be the same if I have the 300mm on?
MarylandBill
Established
Its the F/ratio that is important, not the actual focal length. All lenses shot at f/16 will take the same time to make the shot regardless of the focal length.
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mike rosenlof
Insufficient information
f/stop is independent of focal length, or rather the focal length is built in to the equation. In any case, sunny-16, or your external meter are useful with any focal length lens.
Monochrom
Well-known
base speed is always the same in sunny 16, 100 and f16 with 100 iso film on sunny day.
Then a convention states the minumum speed to get a steady shot for a given length mounted on the camera is the reciprocal of that given length...
For a 50mm lens a 1/50 speed...then for a 135 lens it should be something about 125 and 250...since there´s no exact match for 135 lens.
And so on.
Of course sometimes at 1/50 i miss and other times i nail subject at 1/15...depend on moments adn experience and technique to use in lower speeds below teh reciprocal bla bla bla...
The teles and longer focals are less tolerant with speeds, they must be faster enough, so indoors with long focals go straight to 1600 or 3200.
Hope this helps you.
Then a convention states the minumum speed to get a steady shot for a given length mounted on the camera is the reciprocal of that given length...
For a 50mm lens a 1/50 speed...then for a 135 lens it should be something about 125 and 250...since there´s no exact match for 135 lens.
And so on.
Of course sometimes at 1/50 i miss and other times i nail subject at 1/15...depend on moments adn experience and technique to use in lower speeds below teh reciprocal bla bla bla...
The teles and longer focals are less tolerant with speeds, they must be faster enough, so indoors with long focals go straight to 1600 or 3200.
Hope this helps you.
68degrees
Well-known
it was sunny, had 200 speed film, 300mm lens and I was getting light readings TTL of f4 at 125 and f4 at 1/60?? took uv filter off, same thing. Trying to shoot a blue jay on the mailbox post, hes been begging for his photo to be taken for a week now, taunting me. Today I got the long lens to oblige him and get funky readings.. so I shot at sunny 16 and defied the TTL metering on my Nikon FM. I dont know. I thought to get the FE and see if it was the same.. but... I had a lot of work to do Im way behind with life..
noisycheese
Normal(ish) Human
The focal length of the lens does not matter. The ISO of the film does.
For ISO 100 film, Sunny 16 = f/16 @ 1/125, f/11 @ 1/250, f/8 @ 1/500, etc.
For ISO 400 film, Sunny 16 = f/16 @ 1/500, f/11 @ 1/1000, f/8 @ 1/2000, etc.
For ISO 100 film, Sunny 16 = f/16 @ 1/125, f/11 @ 1/250, f/8 @ 1/500, etc.
For ISO 400 film, Sunny 16 = f/16 @ 1/500, f/11 @ 1/1000, f/8 @ 1/2000, etc.