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- From: bu890@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brian Segal)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: what film to shoot?
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 22:41:20 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- Here's how to determine the llighting crossover:
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- If you have a lightmeter that reads flash as well as ambient light,
- set the meter for the aperture you will be using for the flash and se
- what shutter speed it requires to properly expose the room without flash
- (i.e. the ambient light exposure inndex for the room).
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- You will most likely find that the shutter speed is quite slow compared to
- the sync speed you will be using for the flash. Indeed, if you wanted to
- match them 1:1 you would have to shoot with flash with your aperture set for
- the flash and shutter speed set for the ambient light. Your aperture
- will be determined by the Guide Number of your flash, of wider if you
- want to limit depth of field.
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- It will probably be the case that you will be able to shoot at a faster speed
- than will record enough ambient light to bias the film with incandescent
- lighting.
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- It is also possible to expose for ambient llight, but to under expose a bit and pop
- pop the flash to cool off the light...but this takes experimentation unless
- you have a meter like the Minolta flashmeterIV which has an analyse function
- for just this kind of situation.
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- brian
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