Digital BW, The Print

And, you really don't need the grey card. Just calibrate the palm of your hand. When I decided slides where the only real form of photography(ha), I used the palm method with great results on the period ST801 and RTS. The difference is - then one could instinctivly open or close the iris while looking in the viewfinder - now it's artificial intelligence.

This is true in printing, also.

gar

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On 10/21/2008 at 4:11 AM Dick Rawson wrote:

>--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Richard
>Smallfield <r.smallfield@...> wrote:
>>
>> back in the days of film I used to get the exposure right first
>time, nine 
>> times out of ten (often using a grey card).
>> 
>> Now, with digital, I must confess to having become rather sloppy. I
>always end 
>> up with the right exposure, but often after a test shot or two.
>
>You can use a standard gray card and a reflected-light meter to
>measure the average light intensity at your card, without regard to
>the range of brightness in the subject lighted by (what you hope is)
>the same light source.  You could instead use an incident-light meter
>in place of the card, for equivalent results.
>
>Or, you can use a digital camera to show you the actual light
>intensity across your entire field of view.  That's the result of
>taking "a test shot or two."  This way, you see any saturation in
>bright areas or spots, or in dark areas or spots, even if they are so
>small that they have little effect on the average exposure.
>
>The gray card is a blunt instrument compared to the digital camera. 
>You can consider the digital camera to be a comprehensive light meter
>that also records photographs.
>
>Dick Rawson
>
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