Digital BW, The Print

Let me elaborate a little more on this problem with the difference 
between the camera metering and the handheld Sekonic meter. If I 
face an evenly lit smooth wall and the wall is in sunlight, and if I 
use 
the Sekonic meter; I get the expected f/8 @1/500. The in camera 
meter more often than not gives the identical reading. If I am out 
in the field, however; and meter a sidelit subject, using the 
handheld meter, on the lens axis; I get the expected f/8 @ 1/250. 
When I use the handheld meter, I am using the camera in the Manual 
mode and set the f-stop and shutter speeds manually. Sometimes the 
image appears underexposed and darker than expected. I'll get back 
to that in a moment. Using the in camera meter, and using Aperture 
priority and letting the camera set the shutter speed; the exposure 
is sdjusted by the software and often appears overexposed. I can 
work with the underexposed image in Photoshop if most of the Zones 
are 3 or above in the lower values and not over 7 or 8 in the higher 
values. If the image is overexposed, then the higher values become 
blank white and appear blown out in the image. What I am trying to 
do is calibrate the hand held meter to correspond with the ISO 100 
the camera is using for exposure calculation. Other than including 
images in email, I can't really show that the exposure compensation 
adjustments make any difference in the image at all. I can phooraph 
a grey scale and make the + or - exposure compensation and see not 
differnce in the high tones or low tones. This should make a 
difference. This leads me to think that the camera is till trying to 
make the corrections also to produce a correct exposure regardless 
of what I try to change.  Still looking for help on calibration of 
the handheld meter.


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jeades947 
<jeades1@s...>" <jeades1@s...> wrote:
> Help!!! I have a Nikon coolpix 5700 and a coolpix 995. I have been 
> playing with photography for the past 30 years off and on. One of 
> the first things I learned with film was to find the true film 
speed 
> for the equipment I was using. Now that I have digital, how do I 
do 
> this same essential task? Let me throw something else into the 
pot. 
> I use an old Sekonic incident light meter, which with the setting 
of 
> ISO 100 seems to give me different results when used in bright 
> sunlight and indoors. Let me elaborate, if the subject is fully 
> sunlit and the light is coming from behind me; I get the expected 
> reading of F/8 @ 1/500 of a second. If I set the camera manually 
to 
> that setting, the scene seems to be underexposed. I have run some 
> tests indoors and have gotten satisfactory results using the 
> indicated Sekonic readings. It's only outdoors when it appears 
> underexposed. Sidelit subjects seem to be close to properly 
exposed. 
> I have tried exposure compensation in the camera to relate to 
> setting ISOs of 50, 64, 80, 100. I am holding the light meter on 
the 
> lens axis of the camera in relation to the subject being metered. 
> 
> The meter in the camera is extremely accurate for most of the 
time, 
> but I would like to have the handheld meter to check it against. 
> that is why getting the meter and me cooperating is so important. 
> This quest will probably turn out to be "operator error." This is 
> why this is posted, for folks more astute than I am to see the 
error 
> of my ways and help me out of this dilemna.
> 
> Thansk for any and all help given
> 
> jeades1@s...