Sunny 16.. very accurate

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Originally Posted by E. von Hoegh

This works pretty well with negative materials. If you are using color reversal ...you'll find that a meter is neccesary due to the very short scale - 5 stops in the case of Velvia - of the material.

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Always worked well for me with K-64. 1/250th@f8 or equivalent.

I have sekonic 408 and use it all the time.. but I thought just off the top to make snap call on Fstop it would be great to know.

ToddB

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Originally Posted by lxdude

Always worked well for me with K-64. 1/250th@f8 or equivalent.

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Sure, it works great out on the lawn at 2:00pm.:) What do you do under difficult conditions? Meter.;) At no time over the past 40 years have I been wealthy enough that I could afford not to meter.
With B&W, I use kind of a bastard zone system which doesn't leave room for error, either.

I miss those little fold up sheets that used to come in the film boxes.

Sunny-16 rules. Last summer I made a mistake of trusting my in-camera meter and a whole roll was drastically over exposed due to a dying meter battery.

I should remember the habit of sanity checking the metered settings with Sunny-16 observations.

For me it's more like Sunny 8. :) I like thick, bullet proof negatives. :)

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Originally Posted by E. von Hoegh

Sure, it works great out on the lawn at 2:00pm.:)

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Well of course, it's "Sunny 16". That's when I use it-when it's sunny. No need to meter when I know the the conditions. On a very bright inland SoCal spring or fall day I close down 1/3 or 1/4 stop. On a smoggy summer day I seldom add exposure, because I usually want it to look the way it really does- a little dimmer and yellowish. We hardly ever have those really smoggy days we used to have, though.

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What do you do under difficult conditions? Meter.;)

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I meter or rely on experience, depending on the details of the situation.

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Originally Posted by wblynch

I miss those little fold up sheets that used to come in the film boxes.

Sunny-16 rules. Last summer I made a mistake of trusting my in-camera meter and a whole roll was drastically over exposed due to a dying meter battery.
I should remember the habit of sanity checking the metered settings with Sunny-16 observations.

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Sunny 16 has saved me here, too. I always eyeball and compare my in-head exposure estimate with the one on the meter. If nothing else, it's good mental excersise

When I was playing around last weekend. I double checked with my sekonic and found out that sunny 16 was accurate to sekonic for most cases. Pretty cool.

ToddB

I broke my meter about 2 months ago and don't like the Mamiya's built in so have been using sunny 16 exclusively. More proper exposures than using Aperture priority.

I use sunny 16 rule when my meter battery goes 'dead'.

Jeff