How to gray card on Nikon F100

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Please help me understand how I can set the gray card on my Nikon F100! I have tried google, but the information available far surpassing my attention span! I know this is a film camera and not the Nikon D800 that uses its on board brain to easily allows presets, but, how on Earth do I do it with a film camera, or do I need to take photo's of the gray card? Yes, I am that uneducated, but, I try to figure it out, somehow! Thanks in advance, and sorry if this is the wrong area! :sad:
 

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Hold a gray card in front of the camera to take a reading.

Have a gray card at the edge of the scene to use for color balancing during printing.
 
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Hold a gray card in front of the camera to take a reading.

Have a gray card at the edge of the scene to use for color balancing during printing.

Oh, So, I find the scene I want to photograph, meter regularly, then place the gray card in that scene area, then adjust -+ exposure, correct? I think I get it! :whistling::D Napoleon, and my Nikon F100, and I, thank you! Especially for such a novice question!

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If you are looking to use the grey card to determine exposure, you would place it in the scene in the same light as your subject then take a meter reading of the card only by getting close enough that the card fills the frame.
If you are using as an aid for determining color balance for a print, then you place the card in the scene and photograph the card and the subject, similar to what you've posted. I usually shoot one or two frames that include the card per lighting set-up then exposures of the scene without the card for the actual prints.
 

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The F100 has a spot meter so you can just meter off the gray card with that so long as it is big enough to cover the spot. No need to fill the whole frame.

If you have a white piece of paper with something black in the middle, you can figure out pretty quickly where the boundaries of your spot meter fall in the finder. Mine is pretty close to the brackets of the center AF zone, maybe a little bigger.

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Thankj you everyone, for your time and aid! I was out getting a job, so I couldn't respond quickly! YAY I work at Macy's perfume sales department! After 10+ years of being unemployed, this is heaven sent!
 

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Heaven SCENT? Perfume department?
Umm, intentional? Hope so.
 
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Thankj you everyone, for your time and aid! I was out getting a job, so I couldn't respond quickly! YAY I work at Macy's perfume sales department! After 10+ years of being unemployed, this is heaven sent!
Wishing you the best of luck with your new job.
Unemployment is the pits!
 

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Be happy that you have a job but do not raise a stink about it.
 
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Wishing you the best of luck with your new job.
Unemployment is the pits!



Thank you very much! I can't wait, it has been to long to remember the feel of contribution, once more! Partially I had been a voluntary non worker as I basically did the at home father thing.
I home schooled my son a few years, until the realization became to much to ignore that he needed to socialize a bit more, plus the fact that the curricula became more than I was able to mentally grasp, let alone teach my flesh pupil, without the feelings of inadequacy, whether they were real or not! Did I enjoy those days, extremely, do I regret my decisions to halt them, not 100% but, I do! In the meanwhile aside from that and the menial duties as husband, the joys of mothering and the pains of housework!
Plus pet's, I also enrolled in many courses online at my local junior college, finally achieving 30 completed units in miscellaneous area's, History, Psychology, Administration of Business, and Justice, and Personal Finance, with Psychology and Business being my favorites! I had also took to photography as a method of escaping reality with the hope of intertwining all of the wonderful book's I have read, especially in the Gothic genre, which I still love, that and everything Harry Potter! In that adventure, I read to my son and daughter often, despite their being to "old" to have dad read to them!
With many other factor's and parts of life, I had the misfortune, yet at the same time, fortune, of being there always and whenever my daughter needed me during her infliction of that dreaded bane of humanity, cancer! I was able to be there twenty-four seven thank God, all the while I was able to assist her, and convince her when needed, to continue her education, and persuade her to want again her need to obtain her license! She is driving now, and attending college with her interests in music, and a subtle hint at wanting to pursue a little venture in the realms of photography! xD Please excuse my horrendous writing, this is one of my many weak areas although, I do not see myself ever attempting to give up! I wish I could tell more, or show how much gratitude I have for my extremely awesome wife as she worked to afford us the life we live, plus she is obviously blind and fantastically beautiful!
 
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Be happy that you have a job but do not raise a stink about it.

Keep those puns coming, no pun is too small! I love puny puns as much as I love runny bun, buns, no, not honey bun, buns, runny bun, buns, the only one's, that make us run!








dear reader, and grammarian, please, oh please, forgive my misuse of that dreaded comma! :sad:
 

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Thankj you everyone, for your time and aid! I was out getting a job, so I couldn't respond quickly! YAY I work at Macy's perfume sales department! After 10+ years of being unemployed, this is heaven sent!
No, it's "heaven Scent" :D. Congratulations the best of luck in your new job.
 
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No, it's "heaven Scent" :D. Congratulations the best of luck in your new job.

:tongue: Thank you very much! I keep saying perfume sales, however, I should call it by its official title, Macy's Fragrance Specialist!:D My goal had been to learn the ropes for a time, and eventually take my uncle's offer to do real estate with his brokerage! I had been offered a training position with him, however, I was not ready at that moment, and I felt the need to prepare myself first! Thanks again for the well wishes! Happy photography! -Americo J.Rodriguez
 
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