Interestingly enough, I have measured light from the palms belonging to persons of several races with differing skin hues and find less than than 1/2 f stop difference among them.
Allen Zak On Aug 7, 2007, at 10:13 AM, eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Just like everything else... I've been told one stop, as the palm of just about any hand is zone 6. That's what's great about photography: no answer is right, and the confusion can only be settled with yet another roll of film, or two.E. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Gene Johnson" <genej2ster@xxxxxxxxx>metering the palm of my hand in the same light as the subject, and adding two stops of exposure has always been a good start for me. On 8/6/07, ERoustom <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Thank you. That makes sense now. Elias On Aug 5, 2007, at 11:14 PM, Marc James Small wrote:At 10:44 PM 8/5/2007, ERoustom wrote:I suspect that part of the canard of inaccuracy comes from the reality that we have institutionally forgotten that a selenium meter needs to be used differently from the manner in which a CdS or later meter is employed. LEARN how to use a selenium meter and it is perfectly suitable.Could you give a novice a hint or two on the differences in using thetwo?Selenium offers a metering material which more closely matches the response range of chemical emulsions than do later materials such as CdS, SPD, or Gallium Arsenide. But selenium requires a wider acceptance angle -- no one has yet manufactured a one-degree Selenium spot meter! Accordingly, you have to average a good deal. This generally requires more attention to what is being metered coupled with sweeping the meter up and down and side to side to obtain an average reading. The reading so obtained should be quite usable. Marc msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir! --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list--- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org- Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list-- Be Just and Fear Not --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org- Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list--- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list
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