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Re: [OM] I might jump off the OM ship..

Subject: Re: [OM] I might jump off the OM ship..
From: "Lama-Jim L'Hommedieu" <lamadoo@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:33:48 -0400
A grey card is a great idea!  I have 3.

1.  A coat-pocket sized book called "National Geographic Photographer's Field 
Guide" has a grey card in it.  There's a ton of info
about typical exposures too like Christmas light on EI 400 is 1/4th second at 
f/4.  To shoot the flames of a fire, 1/125th at f2.8.
A different page suggests shooting bright cityscapes at 1/30th at f4 (to 
start).  As you'd expect there are tons of examples of
everything from the basics of composition, to super-wides, to macro.  It lives 
in my kit.

2.  "Kodak Master Darkroom Dataguide" or the Color Dataguide.

3.  Believe it or not, I made a grey card on my inkjet printer using Photoshop. 
 I made a new Greyscale image and built 9 patches
that in these densities: 15%, 35, 45, 55, 60, 71, 80, 91, 100.  I left a 
similar area blank (0%, white).  I printed it on my modest
Epson EPX 785 inkjet using Black ink only.  I carefully compared each patch to 
known 18 0rey cards.  On my printer, 71 0n
Photoshop is an 180atch on 20 pound office paper (matte).

I'm sure you can find either #1 or #2 on ebay for very little money and grey 
cards don't go bad!

Lama


From: "Albert" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> I STILL want a MF!!  But MF film is fairly difficult to find on
> vacation, and so I'm wondering if 8 shots a roll will really do it for
> me or not..
>
> My understanding of the meter in my Om1n is good enough to get me great
> exposures for print film, but a bit lacking as far as slides..
>
> Hmm..  Maybe I'll carry a gray card around..  i'm willing to spend a few
> dollars for that...


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