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3200 Flash Metering

Postby DCI Hunt » Mon May 18, 2009 3:45 pm

Hello everyone - It's my first post on here so please be gentle !! I have searched my question and couldn't find anything so here goes....

My Portaflash Flash Meter covers 50 to 400 film speed
The weekend coming I have planned to do some studio photo's for a friend using 3200 film speed
Is there a way to correctly meter or is it 'trial and error' ?

Many thanks for anyone help

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Re: 3200 Flash Metering

Postby BrigitDoon » Mon May 18, 2009 3:56 pm

Hi Andy, welcome to HG :)

I don't use flash often enough to know what I'm talking about, but I do remember reading about the "guide number" which is an indication of the power of a flash unit. There's a brief explanation here >> and it appears you need to consider the inverse-square rule.

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Re: 3200 Flash Metering

Postby DCI Hunt » Mon May 18, 2009 4:09 pm

That's great - I'll have a good read through and give it a go

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Re: 3200 Flash Metering

Postby AlanM » Mon May 18, 2009 10:29 pm

3200!! The grain on that will be huge - I remember doing gigs with 1600 film and having golfball sized grain
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Re: 3200 Flash Metering

Postby hungryjoe » Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:44 pm

DCI Hunt wrote:Hello everyone - It's my first post on here so please be gentle !! I have searched my question and couldn't find anything so here goes....

My Portaflash Flash Meter covers 50 to 400 film speed
The weekend coming I have planned to do some studio photo's for a friend using 3200 film speed
Is there a way to correctly meter or is it 'trial and error' ?

Many thanks for anyone help

Andy

It's many years since I've worked in a studio, but I think I'm right in suggesting that you should set the speed on your meter to 400 and close your aperture by 3 stops from that suggested.
I can't think why anyone would ever want to use fast film in a studio though.
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