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I'd pretty much say I was brand new to film. Anything I shot on film in the past was probably when I was a child, and didn't have any concept about real photography at all. Well, I just got myself fairly nice-ish Petri 7s rangefinder on 'the bay' the other day and despite it having a slightly temperamental shutter and a fairly dim rangefinder patch, I think I got a bargain (@ £8).
Anyway, I took it out for the first time today, typically on the sunniest day we've had for a long time! Like I said, I'm new to film, and foolishly have it loaded with Tri-X (ISO 400). On a sunny day, that's obviously a bad thing! (Will try HP4 next time).
To get to the point - the Petri has a maximum shutter speed of 1/500 and in some situations I was setting my aperture to f/16 and shutter speed to 1/500 and the meter was still suggesting a fairly large over-exposure. I just wondered if there was any way to counteract this/get round this, or do I just really need to avoid shooting ISO 400 film in those conditions?
Apologies for the newbie nature of the question! Cheers!
Anyway, I took it out for the first time today, typically on the sunniest day we've had for a long time! Like I said, I'm new to film, and foolishly have it loaded with Tri-X (ISO 400). On a sunny day, that's obviously a bad thing! (Will try HP4 next time).
To get to the point - the Petri has a maximum shutter speed of 1/500 and in some situations I was setting my aperture to f/16 and shutter speed to 1/500 and the meter was still suggesting a fairly large over-exposure. I just wondered if there was any way to counteract this/get round this, or do I just really need to avoid shooting ISO 400 film in those conditions?
Apologies for the newbie nature of the question! Cheers!