Consumer cameras have the meter biased for print film, so shoot print film.
If this is true, set the meter a third of a stop higher and voilà, your Canon turned professional!
Seems as though all my problems can now be traced back to my lowly AE 1.I wish someone had told me about the 1/3 -1/2 stop problem before now.
Most of the professionals I knew who shot slide film used exposure bracketing whenever possible, then selected the best frame from each bracket after the film was processed. Perhaps this is what the contributor with his Olympus XA did to guarantee a high success rate concerning exposure.Slide film could be used in the old/ancient cameras (the AE 1, AE1+P does not fit that category!) with noticeable overexposure — you had to expect that; to magazines/publications, overexposure of slides could be corrected (to a point, and as a compromise!) much easier than careless underexposure, but the very long standing print industry preference was for correctly exposed, nicely composed slides (not negatives!) that spoke directly of the accompanying text — definitely not snapshots . When I worked as a sub-editor 30 years ago (1982 to 1985) to a bicycle touring magazine, 70 to 80% of slides submitted were rejected on arrival, with the take-up then having to come from established known regular contributors with a consistently high quality of well exposed work. (I do recall though one regular contributor who shot all his work with an Olympus XA and Kodachrome 64, and exposures were always bang-on, earning him $60 for each of his submissions, and that was serious money back then for freelance writers/photographers). It was always the amateur photographers and their clunky K1000s and Minolta SRTs who just did not adequately grasp the need to carefully expose slide film; most treated it as just a rich-man's version of negative film, often submitted with accompanying gilded chapter and verse on "pro-shooter" status. The number of rejection slips was staggering.
Most of the professionals I knew who shot slide film used exposure bracketing whenever possible, then selected the best frame from each bracket after the film was processed. Perhaps this is what the contributor with his Olympus XA did to guarantee a high success rate concerning exposure.
No its not age, I did testing in the late 70s with brand new cameras and my finding were consumer cameras were weighted toward print film
Really? From the first time i went out to buy 'special' film (1994) until now (2016), slide film has always been priced higher.Slide was substantialy cheaper than print film.
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The Canon AE-1 is a japanese camera. You thus should use japanese film stock.
Trix is for kids! try some Tri-X 400 instead
Really? From the first time i went out to buy 'special' film (1994) until now (2016), slide film has always been priced higher.
In my youth, I mostly shot Kodachrome.Really? From the first time i went out to buy 'special' film (1994) until now (2016), slide film has always been priced higher.
Do you mean meterless or manual?So how did that work with all the fully manuals then..........
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