Beginner problem.

[accorddude]

OK I have been photographing stuff for about 5 years now but I have ran in to a problem recentley. My negatives have gone from perfect in the last three months to the last batch I developed being very grey. The problem is I dont know why. Since this problem started occuring I have started bracketing again. I have noticed that when my meter says it should be dead on its not. At +.5 it gets better and at +1 its still better but still on the gray side. Is thier something I am diong wrong?

 

[niccig]

Maybe the problem is with the film itself (heat or age fog?). Do you have any scanned negatives so we can compare before and after?

 

[Torus34]

Too many possibilities. Developer exhaustion? Meter batteries?

 

[accorddude]

Well I talked with my teacher some more and we determend for a shot to look actually black and white with my N80 and HP5 it has to be shot at around two steps above what the camera meter says.

 

[fightheheathens]

if you can, try to match your cameras light meter reading against either another camera at the same setting or a hand held light meter, if its way off, you have a meter problem...