davecarrera
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Hi all
I own a fully working 124G and any photo I take that has no extreme ends of highs and lows in light, ie part sky part land, develops fine but when I take shots using just the built in light meter I tend to get fully blown out skys with no recoverable data in the negatives.
I can only assume the onboard meter when pointing at the darker part of the image is correctly metering at grey (5) but bright skys are to many stops up the scale to capture correctly.
Would doing the initial metering for the shadows then increasing say shutter speed two stops bring the darks down to (3) and help save the bright highlights?
I would like to be able to understand the build in meter that as I say seems to work fine but need to understand what I have to do to save sky details when out and about with it.
I use colour, B&W and reversal films.
Any advise is appreciated and I wish you well.
I own a fully working 124G and any photo I take that has no extreme ends of highs and lows in light, ie part sky part land, develops fine but when I take shots using just the built in light meter I tend to get fully blown out skys with no recoverable data in the negatives.
I can only assume the onboard meter when pointing at the darker part of the image is correctly metering at grey (5) but bright skys are to many stops up the scale to capture correctly.
Would doing the initial metering for the shadows then increasing say shutter speed two stops bring the darks down to (3) and help save the bright highlights?
I would like to be able to understand the build in meter that as I say seems to work fine but need to understand what I have to do to save sky details when out and about with it.
I use colour, B&W and reversal films.
Any advise is appreciated and I wish you well.