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Digital Vs. Film Metering Hi everyone. I've recently taken photos at a music festival and, not being able to use spot metering for my exposure, I used my Fuji Finepix S5000 for test shots to see what settings were correctly exposed. Seeing which worked well I used those for the film-based camera (eg 1/60 @f/4 with ISO 400 film ) ... most of the time it seemed to work although some were badly overexposed. So I guess the question is how close is the exposure for digital cameras when compared with film cameras and why would settings be correct for one but not the other (digital vs. film). Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers.
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Jon Close |
Exposures should be the same, assuming you had the digital camera set for ISO 400 to match the film. If it were set for a lower ISO - like 160 or 200 - then that shutter/aperture combination would give 1 to 1 1/3 stops overexposure on the ISO 400 film. Even so, 400 speed print film should not have been badly overexposed (though it may have been printed badly by your lab). If you were using slide film (which has much less exposure latitude), the +1 stop overexposure would be very noticeable.
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Jon Close |
P.S. The metering obtained with the digital would apply to the film camera only so long as the scene remained the same. If the film and digital lenses aren't giving the equivalent view, then the metering will be different. Also the lighting can change in the time from metering with the digital to taking the shot with the film camera (passing clouds, etc.).
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Diane Dupuis |
Hi Erin! I also have the S5000 and would like to ask you a few questions. Can you e-mail me? Thanks
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