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by 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
Andy
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by 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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by DCI Hunt » Mon May 18, 2009 4:09 pm
That's great - I'll have a good read through and give it a go
Thanks
Andy
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by 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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by 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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