It is a Seconik L-758D and it agrees with any digital camera I have (Canon 5DII and Mamiya ZD) and it agrees with all MF slides (Provia 400X and 100F and Velvia 100) I have taken the last 10 years. 90% of these is incident measuring, spot is only used if not in the same light or when photographing stained glass. I do know from experience that if the build in meter of a camera says something very different than the Sekonic, it is the Sekonic that can be trusted. Slides developed by a pro lab that has its own machines and does daily development of chromes.
I have not done that test. But I suppose that if I expose at box speed and develop according to manufacturers recommendation I should get something acceptable. It might not be acceptable to "zone system users" but it should be better that those 4 examples I posted.Do the film test with gray scale step tablet and 18% gray card as previously mentioned.
If this meter can produce the correct exposure for slides I suppose it is "good enough" for b&w. The same lens can produce with the same film, development and procedure fine results. (obviously with the same shutter) But the result is not consistent. And the non consistency can be in the final image (as in being too light, too dark, no greys) or just not being sharp.After this comes shutter speed, lens aperture scale correct for the lens cell set.
I can accept that exposure might not be always perfect if the shutter is a bit off. But focusing on the GG with a Gaoursi 8x loupe and then having some negatives sharp and other like those above (flou artistique is an understatement) is not something due to exposure or development issues.
You should think so. But when you do everything exactly the same each time and get different results every time, this doesn't work.Source of this problem can be figured out by breaking down the film image making process one item and step at a time.
But Ok, I give up because you lot obviously don't think this is happening. Discussion is meaningless if you cannot accept me writing down my experiences as dry as possible. Doing that grey scale step test is just useless as each time it will give different results.
As long as taking textbook photos, meaning exposing to box speed with incident metering, on a tripod with a cable release and then developing with the same developer at the same temperature for the same time with the same agitation (in a Jobo CPE) according to manufacturer recommendations for that film, exposure and developerAND not getting consistent results then there is something fundamentally flawed.
Using the same film in a MF system with the same workflow and getting consistent results makes it even more of a problem.
When you get better results from a film that has stayed 40 years in a drawer after being shot with an Agfa Clack (no metering at all) compared to all this... You need a miracle.
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