View Poll Results: What metering system do you use?

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  • BTZS: Beyond The Zone System, fully tested/plotted etc.

    4 3.70%
  • Full Zone Sytem, fully tested/plotted, using N+- etc

    14 12.96%
  • Partial Zone System

    35 32.41%
  • Spot metering multiple points and averaging

    27 25.00%
  • single spot meter on subject or "average grey" area

    20 18.52%
  • Incident meter

    42 38.89%
  • "wide-angle" average meter

    12 11.11%
  • using reading from 35mm or digital camera

    16 14.81%
  • "sunny 16"

    15 13.89%
  • Other

    7 6.48%
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Thread: Poll: What metering system do you use? (updated)

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    Poll: What metering system do you use? (updated)

    View Poll Results: Poll: What metering system do you use?

    BTZS: Beyond The Zone System, fully tested/plotted etc.
    Full Zone Sytem, fully tested/plotted, using N+- etc
    Partial Zone System
    Spot metering multiple points and averaging
    single spot meter on subject or "average grey" area
    Incident meter
    "wide-angle" average meter
    using reading from 35mm or digital camera
    "sunny 16"
    Other

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    Re: Poll: What metering system do you use? (updated)

    I use the Zone system without having fully tested anything. When you carefully meter different grey level in a scene, note your results, expose and develop your negative, print it on your paper of choice, you already know where you are. After doing this the first time, you may have to adjust film speed and developing time. But then you are set and more than some finetuning will not be necessary afterwards

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    Re: Poll: What metering system do you use? (updated)

    I use several of them depending on the film, subject and location. I don't meter a studio portrait on color neg, landscape on B&W neg or a product shot on chrome the same way.

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    Re: Poll: What metering system do you use? (updated)

    now this is getting ugly.. two threads with people posting to both. SORRY! there was no way to edit a poll apparently and it wouldnt let me delete the original =[

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    Re: Poll: What metering system do you use? (updated)

    Sunny 16 ,--- use ortho film, -----watch development, -----pull when cooked

    bob

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    Re: Poll: What metering system do you use? (updated)

    This survey is more balanced.

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    Eric Woodbury
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    Re: Poll: What metering system do you use? (updated)

    Expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights.

    I use about zone 4 for shadows.
    my picture blog
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    multiplex
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    Re: Poll: What metering system do you use? (updated)

    i usually guess for the most part.
    and if i am using my graflex
    i only shoot wide open and 1/15thS no matter what
    the conditons. i process all my film in caffinolC with a few
    ounces of straight ansco130, or i use the same developer, but
    used.

    if it is for work-stuff i use an incident meter and average
    the shadow and light, and i process my film in either sprint film developer
    or ansco 130 1:5 ....

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    Re: Poll: What metering system do you use? (updated)

    I am using a combo of my Spotmatic's built-in meter, a Gossen SBC Super Pilot, the Sunny-16 rule (including, sometimes, outright guesses), and a Black Cat Extended Exposure meter/calculator thingy.

    Up until this year I only used the built-in meter in the Spotmatic, so all the rest of this is me trying to branch out a little bit.

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    Re: Poll: What metering system do you use? (updated)

    Sunny 16 only used with my meterless Barnack Leicas. Partial Zone or averaging several spots I use with LF and my other cameras that have meter.

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