It works for me in magic hour. But I will admit, sometimes I missed the shot because setting up took too long. I was hoping to get a little more orange for this shot before the sun set.
Chestnut Point, Manasquan Reservoir by Alan Klein, on Flickr
3.5% center spot would be too big for that image. Just imagine it on the pic. It would cover nearly the whole head. I wanted the forehead.
But I'm not knocking built in meters. 90% of the time they are excellent and I use them.
Just need to know when to say when as most of the interesting pics for me have difficult lighting.
In college we were trained in shooting sunny 16,
Yes, the Weston patent was unique to Weston meters. What I don’t know is why Norwood’s patent doesn’t appear to have been tight enough to preclude everyone else from using hemisphere diffuser. I’m not sure that I ever researched that detail.
"Sunny 16" is not a universal thing. Where I live I have consistently metered bright mid-day sun about a stop less, and slides exposed at "sunny 11" are perfectly exposed. Other members have also made comments that effect, so sunny (f number) appears to be latitude dependent.
Sunny 16 works out to a light value of EV 15, I get EV 14 as full summer sun, less in the winter.
If you read the note in Kodak film boxes regarding Sunny 16, they say it's between the hours of 10am-2PM. Latitude would affect that as well as would elevation and season."Sunny 16" is not a universal thing. Where I live I have consistently metered bright mid-day sun about a stop less, and slides exposed at "sunny 11" are perfectly exposed. Other members have also made comments that effect, so sunny (f number) appears to be latitude dependent.
Sunny 16 works out to a light value of EV 15, I get EV 14 as full summer sun, less in the winter.
You can see from hurter and Driffield's actinograph that time of day, time of year, and latitude all contribute.
It depends on your criteria. The differences are not only well known and understood but real.I guess college in Southern California worked just fine for sunny16. My Kodak Master Photoguide 1959 gives direction with a daylight exposure computer for color and black and white, as well as directions for using of a ground glass back as extinction meter. Nothing about adjusting for time of year or latitude.
"Sunny 16" is not a universal thing. Where I live I have consistently metered bright mid-day sun about a stop less, and slides exposed at "sunny 11" are perfectly exposed. Other members have also made comments that effect, so sunny (f number) appears to be latitude dependent.
Sunny 16 works out to a light value of EV 15, I get EV 14 as full summer sun, less in the winter.
If you read the note in Kodak film boxes regarding Sunny 16, they say it's between the hours of 10am-2PM. Latitude would affect that as well as would elevation and season.
If you read the note in Kodak film boxes regarding Sunny 16, they say it's between the hours of 10am-2PM. Latitude would affect that as well as would elevation and season.
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