On 3/6/2012 12:32 PM, Darkroom User wrote:
'Francis A. Miniter[_2_ Wrote:
;945476']On 3/5/2012 17:01 PM, Darkroom User wrote:-
There are many discussions on the internet for using lightmeters,
either
reflective or incident. Much of it for digital or color reversal
films.

When it comes down to B/W films, methods such as the zone system or
BTZS
are mentioned.

How do the visitors here like to use their lightmeters for exposing
B/W
films for enlarging or contacts in the wet darkroom?
-

I don't. I have an old spot-type print analyzer that I use
to get dynamic range and then time settings. It would seem
to me that a light meter, unless it is a spot meter, is not
going to be all that useful in the darkroom.

--
Francis A. Miniter
I should have made my post more clear. I meant exposing the films in
camera.
I mentioned the wet darkroom, because that is how I make my prints.



Ah. When shooting, I prefer a spot meter, or, if I am using
a camera with multiple function metering, I almost always
choose the spot option. I prefer to do my own "weighting"
of the scene, especially since I want to make sure that the
object of the scene, whether on center or off, is properly
metered, whatever else about the rest of the scene. I don't
overtly use the zone system, but I do try to compensate for
overly wide or overly narrow dynamic light ranges.

By the way, I rarely use color reversal films. Most of my
shooting is B&W, with about a third to 40% color negative
film.


--
Francis A. Miniter

Mesure is Medicine þauh þou muche ȝeor[n]e.
Al nis not good to þe gost þat þe bodi lykeþ,
Ne lyflode to þe licam þat leof is to þe soule.

William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman
Passus I, lines 33 - 35