Re: testing 320 and 400 speed film using plotter software, part III

From: steves ^lt;sgshiya@redshift.com>
Date: 04/13/04-12:52:15 AM Z
Message-id: <001401c42123$e0d146c0$2904e4d8@am.sony.com>

Without going into what the EV means, the answer to your question lays in
the fact that you are setting the light; you are not testing the light on
the film.

I use a probe, and this is a method to set your meter to use as a probe.

S. Shapiro
----- Original Message -----
From: "shannon stoney" <sstoney@pdq.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Cc: <wcharmon@wt.net>; <sking@clemson.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 8:31 AM
Subject: testing 320 and 400 speed film using plotter software, part III

> OK, so maybe I have some major confusion about what EV means. It
> seems that it does change with the ISO. I thought for a minute that
> it was an absolute measure of the light levels, and that the exposure
> changed with the ISO, not the EV. So, I guess we're back to the
> first question: if you are testing 400 speed film, should you aim
> for an EV of 4 at ISO 400?
>
> --shannon
>
Received on Tue Apr 13 14:31:35 2004

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