Re: exposure issues

[Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you will find the shutter to be wildly inaccurate, and I would suggest either shooting a flotilla of test sheets of one of those pie chart exposure samples one makes darkroom prints through, or sending your entire camera to Bob Watkins at Precision Camera repairs near Chicago so he can both test the shutter speeds and see if there are any pinholes or other light leaks in the bellows and surrounding woods.

Jan

On Mar 31, 2014, at 4:31 AM, Jonathan Turner wrote:

Hi,

I recently bought an old large format field camera that came with a lens which is so old it has shutter speeds that don't correspond with my light meter; it has 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, 100th, 200th, instead of the normal shutter speeds (8th, 15th, 30th, 60th etc.)

So my problem is trying to work out what the correct exposure should be...working from my meter. I'm shooting colour negative, so I'm guessing it can take a bit of latitude either way, but can't quite work out if I should go with an exposure that is slightly over, or slightly under what the meter says. For example, if my meter reading is F8/125th, should I shoot at F8/100th, or F8/200th?

Any input appreciated.

Cheers,
Jonathan.
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