After only a few years into photography I've come to get a little bored with color shots, and have realized that I personally find B&W more intrieging and expressive. Recently I have been shooting more with a Yashica-D TLR (fault Tiger Moses for showing me his Yashica-D, while on a Business trip near Birmingham, AL). Since this camera has no built in meter I've been using a Gossen Luna Pro Digital. Enough background, on to the question:
I have found reasonable success using a yellow No. 8 filter with a 2X filter factor, and opening up one extra stop (correct me if I misunderstand filter factors). I've shot two pics at the end of a roll I was wanting to get processed in a pinch with a red No. 25 filter (5X factor). Both of these shots were opened up 2.5 extra stops, and both are overexposed. I was trying to put anything in a zone or anything like that I was just using the incident meter to get a normal photograph. Now here is the questions for real: Would I be better off using my meter as a reflected meter and metering through the filter? Will I run into problems where the meter is more sensitive to certain colors than others? How should I adjust the filter factor for subjects that are overwhelmingly one color or another. Do I simply have a misunderstanding about filter factors. Do your recomendations apply for flash in the same manner? Thanks for all the help. Brent Roberts PS - please don't recommend me purcahsing a zone modified spot meter...I just don't think I could afford it. I do, however, welcome donations. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
