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I've developed my first film for several years. I wanted to use my 50/60s rangefinder cameras, one Voigtlander CLR and the older Baldina.
I'd exposed one 35mm 36exp film between the two cameras, using metering of an app on my mobile phone.
I compared the app to the readings given by my Fujifilm XQ1 compact and adjusted the app to match it (-1 stop). Surprisingly, the onboard metering on the CLR agreed well with the app, so a few frames were shot using the camera's metering.
The image attached shows a sample of the scan of the negatives on my flatbed scanner. Frame #6 (lump of concrete) was an exposure guess and came out well exposed (I think), frames 4 & 5 were affected by direct sunlight onto the camera meter "window" and caused it to read a lower value, making them nearer the right exposure. The frames on the top row are as per all other frames on the roll, pretty heavy exposure, giving quite a dense negative.
Since developing the film, I have resurrected my Nikon F70. Checking the exposure values that this gives against the app & digital camera shows that the F70 gives a reading one stop lower exposure. As I tend to trust the F70 over the other means of metering, it seems that my film could have been over exposed by one stop, but most frames are so heavy, I wonder if i should adjust for more change than one stop?
Is there a more reliable way to analyse the overexposure (and save me one more film and disappointment)?
Fomapan 100 in Ilfosol3 (1+9), 5 mins at 20c (with presoak).
I'd exposed one 35mm 36exp film between the two cameras, using metering of an app on my mobile phone.
I compared the app to the readings given by my Fujifilm XQ1 compact and adjusted the app to match it (-1 stop). Surprisingly, the onboard metering on the CLR agreed well with the app, so a few frames were shot using the camera's metering.
The image attached shows a sample of the scan of the negatives on my flatbed scanner. Frame #6 (lump of concrete) was an exposure guess and came out well exposed (I think), frames 4 & 5 were affected by direct sunlight onto the camera meter "window" and caused it to read a lower value, making them nearer the right exposure. The frames on the top row are as per all other frames on the roll, pretty heavy exposure, giving quite a dense negative.
Since developing the film, I have resurrected my Nikon F70. Checking the exposure values that this gives against the app & digital camera shows that the F70 gives a reading one stop lower exposure. As I tend to trust the F70 over the other means of metering, it seems that my film could have been over exposed by one stop, but most frames are so heavy, I wonder if i should adjust for more change than one stop?
Is there a more reliable way to analyse the overexposure (and save me one more film and disappointment)?
Fomapan 100 in Ilfosol3 (1+9), 5 mins at 20c (with presoak).
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