I have tested my hand helds with my istD and K10D and my D1. Digital cameras always showed a difference of several stops from the hand held.
I use the meter on the camera now. Dave On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > I decided to run a test roll through my Argus C3 to see if it still works. I > noticed that the hand held meter seemed to match the meter in my SRT-101 but > was a stop or two off from the meter in the K-x. If the K-x said 1/60 the > hand held meter said 1/250 sometimes. Other times reading off a grey card, > they matched a bit more closely. > > So, I tried shooting test shots with it both at the hand held metering, and > using the metering from the K-x. Oddly enough, there isn't an obvious, huge > difference in the way that the prints look. I suspect that Walgreen's printer > automatically corrects. > > I'm not too thrilled with the way the kodacolor 400 that I had laying around > looks. Fortunately I still have a bunch of 200 and some 100. > > It is so weird going back to the C3, which apart from a few shots with my > dad's spotty was the camera I started with. Remembering to wind the film and > cock the shutter separately. Having to look through a separate window to > focus. The shutter only goes up to 1/300, and so forth. > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
