Predictions - longevity of MF film

Etaoin Shurdlu wrote:
"Noons" wrote in message
ups.com...
[...] However, you definitely have a different cultural
background from mine.

I certainly do, but the physics are the same.

Apparengtly not: you keep replying to messages
that are not for you. Must be that "multiple universes"
thing.

Etaoin Shurdlu wrote:
Ssshhhhhhh! You are wrong and making it all up,
according to the "linotype experts" around here...

WTF is that supposed to mean?

WTF is Etaoin Shurdlu supposed to mean?

wrote:


People in camera stores now, they make me split my gut laughing. You
should hear the conversations.

They actually believe all the lies the people behind the counter tell
them!

If the people behind the counter tell lies, you're hangin' around the
wrong camera store.

Robert Feinman wrote:

In article .com,
says...

Etaoin Shurdlu wrote:

It is the Sunny 16 rule, Mr. Twenty Years Experience.

When I learned it was f11. And it works even today:
add-in a uv filter and 1/2 stop over for colour negative and that's
exactly what it should be. Of coruse you may prefer to underexpose.


No wonder you use an alias. Maybe you should change it to NOOP.

A careful reading of the famous Kodak f16 pictorials supplied with
amateur film will reveal a few footnotes.
One of them states that you should increase the exposure by 1 stop
for strong side lighting. In other words if you have deep shadows
as would be the case on a clear, sunny day. So the f16 rule really
only applies to full frontal lighting conditions (the old rule
about the sun being behind the photogs shoulder).
Personally, with color negative film I usually find f11-f8, especially
if any of the subject is darker toned. Modern color neg film has
excellent over exposure latitude.


frontlit - f/16
sidelit - f/11
backlit - f/8
open shade - f/8
frontlit on concrete - f/22
overcast - f/5.6 or f/8 (depending on how thick the cloud layer)

First assignment, first semester of photography school. Head &
shoulders; subject holds a gray card in front of their chest.

Of course it is B&W negative film.

"no_name" wrote in message
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frontlit - f/16

And the directions always said, "Put your back to the sun." I traveled all
the way to the Pacific trying that.