Is that the one that does huge Dmax and visual/ UV readings? You'd be able to get overall density readings, but if you are trying to diagnose a process fault and that sort of thing, the 810/811 etc are the ones that do Status A/ Status M etc.
As has been said, they look good.
I returned from my trip and took them to my trusted lab in Montreal and they agreed the negatives were good.
I'd also like to thank @Lachlan Young (or not) for sending me down this worm hole after recommending the use of a spot meter to get better meter readings from low contrast white out snow conditions ;-)
I found incident meters much better for snow conditions than reflectance meters including spot meters.
But you were using your incident meter to measure reflected light, as you recently indicated and were quite adamant was the correct way to use an incident meter.
Hey that was the only time I ever made a mistake in my life. Get over it.
Perhaps the highlights in your avatar picture wouldn't be so blown out without making such mistakes.
But you were using your meter...
You use light meters?
I think that's the one. I bought it to measure B&W negative density and for alternative processes using digital negatives but I know little to nothing about processing color negatives. Could you point me to some good resources thst explain status a and m?
Oh Man..............i would hope you are right.I thought one metered off the PALM of the hand for "gray card minus one stop".
EDIT: I just did a N=1 experiment. Both the back and palm of my Caucasian left hand measure within 1/3 stop of each other using a Gossen LunaPro SBC meter. Both measure approximately one stop more than a Kodak gray card.
Probably the best (if not the least technical) explanation is in the SPSE Handbook of Photographic Science and Engineering edited by Woodlief Thomas.
The later version, the 1997 (?) Noel Proudfoot version, is probably better. As I recall it gives tabulated numbers for the responses. (You might guess that I have spent considerable time in both handbooks - they have long been sort of the bible to photofinishers.) (Congrats if you are the new owner of lasers book.)
But I think this is largely irrelevant to the OP. The key thing is that these two things, Status A and Status M, just define the color response of the densitometer for a nominal red, green, and blue reading. And for color negatives, for the purposes of "process control," a Status M densitometer should be used. This is specified in Kodak's Z-131 manual, the bible of C-41 processing, which can be found online. It may be a bit overwhelming, though, for someone new to color processing.
I thought the palm of a hand was Zone-6, and that is what i have been doing.
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