Re: Some slide film advice?

2013-02-11 Thread P. J. Alling
But, those gigantic chromes are beautiful. On 2/11/2013 7:58 PM, Mark C wrote: Back in the day people used to routinely rate the old ISO 50 Velvia at ISO 40. I have never shot the ISO 100 Velvia so I can't offer much advice regarding it. Personally, I used to use center weighted averaging on a

Re: Some slide film advice?

2013-02-11 Thread Mark C
Back in the day people used to routinely rate the old ISO 50 Velvia at ISO 40. I have never shot the ISO 100 Velvia so I can't offer much advice regarding it. Personally, I used to use center weighted averaging on a PZ-1p with slide film all the time, but the evaluative meting in that camera le

Re: Some slide film advice?

2013-02-11 Thread Bruce Walker
; From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of P. J. Alling > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 10:21 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Some slide film advice? > > Most slide films seem to give a slightly better rendition if you > underexpose about a third to

Re: Some slide film advice?

2013-02-11 Thread Paul Stenquist
I had some success shooting cars on Velvia 6 x 7, with dead on or slightly over exposures. But I always shot some Provia or ektachrome as backup. Paul via phone On Feb 11, 2013, at 5:22 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Paul Stenquist > wrote: > >> You don't want to

Re: Some slide film advice?

2013-02-11 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > You don't want to underexposed Velvia. The result will be garish with lost > detail. As opposed to the desired Velvia result: garish with fine detail. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_

Re: Some slide film advice?

2013-02-11 Thread Paul Stenquist
You don't want to underexposed Velvia. The result will be garish with lost detail. Paul via phone On Feb 11, 2013, at 4:36 PM, Zos Xavius wrote: > Thanks for all the replies. Since my k-5 never leaves my side I will just use > that for metering and match settings. I will try to remember to un

RE: Some slide film advice?

2013-02-11 Thread Zos Xavius
Thanks for all the replies. Since my k-5 never leaves my side I will just use that for metering and match settings. I will try to remember to underexpose ever so slightly. This will be good practice for when I make the jump to a 67. 35mm isn't doing it for me, but it is fun to play with film.

RE: Some slide film advice?

2013-02-11 Thread John Sessoms
Digital seems to me to be very much like shooting with slide film in terms of exposure ... they're both more sensitive to blown highlights. Slide film does seem to have just a tiny bit more latitude than does digital. If you set the ISO on your K-5 to the same ISO as you're using for the film

RE: Some slide film advice?

2013-02-11 Thread J.C. O'Connell
From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of P. J. Alling Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 10:21 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Some slide film advice? Most slide films seem to give a slightly better rendition if you underexpose about a third to a half stop, but not all and I

Re: Some slide film advice?

2013-02-11 Thread P. J. Alling
Most slide films seem to give a slightly better rendition if you underexpose about a third to a half stop, but not all and I never used Velvia that much, I didn't like the over-saturated colors, so I can't say for sure if it will benefit, much from underexposure. When I have been shooting film

Re: Some slide film advice?

2013-02-11 Thread Paul Stenquist
Determine a nice exposure with your K-5 and duplicate that with the slide film. Exposing for highlights is fine if you apply some zone thinking, but you definitely don't want to aim a center weighted meter at the sky to determine exposure. You'll be critically underexposed. If you must use the c

RE: Some slide film advice?

2013-02-10 Thread John Coyle
ay, 11 February 2013 4:05 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Some slide film advice? I'm going to run a roll of velvia 100 that someone handed me the other day through my zx-7. I will probably do nothing but mostly tripod landscapes and what not. Since I will likely be using an older

Some slide film advice?

2013-02-10 Thread Zos Xavius
I'm going to run a roll of velvia 100 that someone handed me the other day through my zx-7. I will probably do nothing but mostly tripod landscapes and what not. Since I will likely be using an older 50mm mostly, I will just have center weighted metering at my disposal. I know that for slide