Common exposure with TMax400 with yellow filter for sunny scenes?

Eric Verheul

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Number 15 yellow. TMY-2 at 400 leaves me setting my spot meter to 160 (for the 1 1/2 stop filter comp) The darkest windows I wanted just the slightest hint of detail, and that put the highest of the high values only 5 stops brighter. f22 at 1/30th sec was enough exposure to place the darkest shadowed window at a zone 2, and I gave this roll N+1 development to pop the contrast up a bit. The nice thing about Pyro and other staining developers is that there are usually enough details in the denser parts of the negative to burn those values down in the printing process, though I had to do nothing significant to this print, other than cropping out the foreground.
 

Sirius Glass

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As Brain points out properly calibrated light meters agree exactly.
 

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No, ic, that graph doesn't talk about exposure nor about photography. At all... It talks about light only. Of course sunlight varies. That variation doesn't mean the same for slide film and for negative film.
I may have misunderstood your question. You asked: [do you] find your exposure for sunny scenes change a lot,. And my reply is "YES" and you can see how much it does change by season and time of day as shown in the graph. Exposure for reflective objects is determined by the intensity of the light falling on the object, that is shown in the graph.
Photography is light only. Unless you are physically bending the film or doing kirlian photography.

Maybe re-phrase the original question.
 
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