Originally posted by tuco Those look to have good exposure. For our latitude here in the Pacific NW, I think the Sunny 11 is more practical. I place my shadows 2 stops below my middle gray when I use a one-degree spot meter and that usually is the Sunny 11 rule around here especially in early spring/late fall when the Sun is not near its maximum declination and goes through much more atmosphere than people living between, say, 0 and 30 degrees latitude.
yep. I am fairly certain that I shot those at f:8 and 1/125, except the lawnmower, I bumped it down to 5.6, as there was a slight shade right there.
It was essentially a f:11 day and I dropped a stop because of the PNW northern status. :-) I almost always carry my DW-68 because so many of my favorite cameras have no meter at all. I know I looked at it that day.
The snow made a difference with low contrast. I used Ultrafine xtreme 100 and 1+3 d-76 for 12 minutes.
The negatives were thin. That was my last roll of that stuff. I have 400 ordered, and I am going back to 1+1 on the D76.
---------- Post added 12-02-15 at 22:09 ----------
Originally posted by bobbotron Cool! I just picked up a Petri Racer rangefinder, they're nice cameras.
I may someday get the meter working, it seems to be a mechanical problem rather than a light cell problem, the meter never reads less than a stop underexposed, even with the cap on.
The reason I got it was the shutter and aperture are both mechanical and not dependent on battery at all.
This will likely be my go to B&W rangefinder, as it has the f;1.9 fast lens. I REALLY like the flash synch at 1/500th, as well as that same feature on my Oly 35RC and other leaf shutter cameras.
Wondering why the DSLR stuff never went with the electronic leaf shutter for full synch speeds.