[rollei_list] Re: Rollei red filter and something else

  • From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 15:38:25 -0300

Hi Thor:
            Yes, I find exposure tables very useful for the purpose. I
think this is a good exposure table; BTW, you always add a bit of
experience:

http://www.fredparker.com/ultexp1.htm

Carlos

2015-01-10 14:53 GMT-03:00 Thor Legvold <tlegvold@xxxxxx>:

> Hi Carlos,
>
> how do you determine proper exposure when taking pictures at night?
>
> I realize this is a digital shot and you can merely adjust your settings
> and take another until you’re satisfied, but when shooting film, are there
> any good guidelines people here follow to ensure adequate and proper
> exposure?
>
> Thor
>
> On 10. jan. 2015, at 18:31, CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > When we were navigating along the river Paraná, the ship passed under
> the International cable- stayed bridge and I took a photograph with one of
> the towers in the foreground and my city in the background. It was taken
> last Sunday in the morning, with the 2.8C Xenotar and a Rollei red filter
> to darken the sky:
> >
> >  https://www.flickr.com/photos/itarfoto/16243241312/
> >
> > We returned in the evening; I had no film and wanted a nocturnal view
> from the middle of the river about the bridge and the city. I still had the
> Panasonic Lumix DMC LX7, a P&S  compact digital camera provided with a
> Leica f1.4 24mm-90mm nano coated 35mm lens equivalent, and took this image
> at f 1.4 (lens wide open), 24mm equivalent (wide angle), at 1/15 ISO 1600,
> camera hand-held without flash:
> >
> > https://www.flickr.com/photos/itarfoto/15625141683/
> >
> > Carlos
> >
> > 2015-01-08 6:30 GMT-03:00 CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Last Sunday we visited a site called "Club del Río" (River's Club),
> close to the San Ignacio town (the town with XVIIth century Jesuitic
> missions ruins; you can see them in my Flickr gallery) 60 km from my city,
> using the fluvial way. My first idea was to carry the 2.8C for B&W shots
> and the 3,5F for color shots, but it would required an additional bag, too
> bulky; I finally carried the 2,8C only, using a TMax 400 in the morning and
> for a few hours after the noon and a Portra 400 color negative in the
> afternoon (I also had a Lumix LX7 with Leica lens, but it's a different
> story...)
> >
> > I had thought a color pano using the morning light, but we arrived
> almost at noon and the light was gone. I needed to finish the TMax 400 to
> load the Portra 400 and took these three frames from the opposite side
> regarding my original idea, I used a light tripod and the Rolleifix. The
> stitched pano (PS Elements Photomerge) has trees and geometric forms in the
> foreground, very close to the camera (f22), however I think the image looks
> natural because the rotation axis was about the lens exit pupil distance.
> > The TMax 400 was developed with Romek PQ 7 developer (Phenidone)
> >
> > I uploaded the image largest size allowed in Flickr: 2048 pixels for the
> longest side:
> > https://www.flickr.com/photos/itarfoto/15604104704/
> >
> > Carlos
> >
>
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