[HUG ] Re: New to Hasselblad

Hey James... I see that you survived Yosemite.

Welcome to the HUG. You seem to be doing OK with the list.
Color. For transparency film, always expose so that the highlights are not blown out. Read the highlights and make sure that they are in zone 7 or less. Actually, outdoors on a sunny day, the sunny 16 rule works great. For Fuji Velvia 50, that is 1/60th @ f/16. And scale it up or down as desired. Your Hassy lenses have a little button that if you push it, it locks the shutter and aperture rings together so that you can easily scale the exposure up or down to suit your needs. I use an incident meter a lot. A Minolta Flashmeter VI. It's also a spot meter but I tend to use the incident readings more than the spot readings. But a spot meter is what will tell you if your highlights are within the films recording ability (not higher than zone 7). 

:-)

Jim


On Apr 28, 2008, at 9:52 PM, JAMES WILLIAMS wrote:
Hello everyone, my name is James. I am new to Hasselblad, taking my first steps in med. format. I have done pretty well so far, have not got any masterpieces yet but I have some good stories. I am shooting color, was wondering if anyone has any pointers. I have 503cx with 60mm and 80mm lens. I met Jim Brick shooting pics in Yosemite last Friday, he told me about this site. He basically gave me a class on using my Hasselblad, how cool is that. Well I have never been on one of these list sites hope I'm doing this right. Namaste' James P.S. I have shot 35mm for 30 years, shot digital on and off for 5 or 6 years. 


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