I go with Kino on this one. Pre expose your film so that you raise the luminance of the shadows while affecting the highlights very little. To pre expose the film, aim your lens at a non textured evenly lit surface. Meter it and set exposure to a zone ii setting. This will already brighten your film from base plus fog to zone ii. Then expose for the highlights. This will bring your zone 0 up to about 2. Zone ii up to about 3.5. Zone iv to about 5. But the higher zones might only increase about a 20th of a stop. Thus condensing your tonal range, flattening it out. But practice this before relying on it. It works, but you gotta know how it works, see how it works before it should be relied upon. |