1. Does it matter if I use 100 x 1 or 200 x 1/2?
2. I read the manual and it says only to use the adjustments if you have a really dark or really light background. How do I use this to my advantage?
3. Do I have to shoot a 400 ISO film on the 400 ISO setting or could I shoot it with the setting at, for example, 100 ISO, because it is lighter outside than I expected?
In complex situations get close to the subject to make the subject fill all the frame, so you for sure get the good exposure for your subject. Then frame the background alone to know the good exposure for it. Then decide the exposure tou want, instead having an exposure calculated in a certain way by te camera you have the two exposures, for subject and for background, then you decide exposure knowing how under/over exposed subject and banckround will be.
My camera always decides the shutter speed for me, at least a bit. .... but my camera always adjusts the shutter speed accordingly
Is this "suggested" shutter speed that which I'm supposed to look at for the subject and background?
And thank you so much for your reply to my third question, I don't understand a word of it apart from the "No", so I just won't do thatMaybe I'll understand it one day when I've learned more.
+1While learning I would suggest that you always shoot film at the box speed, that is if it says 400 on the box set the camera to 400, with color film always set the camera to the stated speed, remember the meter will set the camera for the speed it is set to, using a different iso will result in over/under exposed negatives, later on, especialy if you shoot black and white you will find that you will find your own film speed setting for the film, for instance, for fomapan 400, the film I mostly use I set the camera at 250, in fact for most 400 iso film I will set the film speed down to 250/200 and develop for the speed I have set
Let me say an example, in a landscape 1/3 of the scene is the sky, the rest are mountains, the camera is to fire (say) 1/250... but you want to know: how the sky will be exposed ? No problem, just point the camera framing only the sky, if camera says 1/000 this says that when you frame the real scene and the camera shots 1/250 the sky will result 2 stops overexposed...
Then you think... oh, I'm using Velvia and 2 stops overexposure is too much for the sky !!! No problem, you set 1/2x in the dial and your camera will shot 1/500, so you will overexpose the sky by 1 stop,
By the way, always read the manual of your camera. Even experienced users here found some quirk at some camera they would not have realized without reading the manual.
For all common analog cameras the manual is somewhere on the internet.
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I have the manual and figured out that I could move the ISO wheel because of it.... I ended up getting confused by their advice on over and underexposure that's why I asked my questions.
Trying to learn about something is literally the opposite of being ignorant lmao
Ohhh I've read about that for digital cameras! I've used a digital one before and it had the -3 to +3 scale you can see in the bottom left corner to adjust the exposure...
Is that what the wheel with the different numbers does on my camera?
And thanks for the link
No, ronnies corrected this way up in the thread. You have to select 2x to go from 1/500 to 1/250, as 6th grade math would suggestthe ME goes to 1/500, if you still want 1/250 then you select 1/2x
No, ronnies corrected this way up in the thread. You have to select 2x to go from 1/500 to 1/250, as 6th grade math would suggest
have the manual and figured out that I could move the ISO wheel because of it.... I ended up getting confused by their advice on over and underexposure that's why I asked my questions.
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