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Re: [OM] IMG: Learning About the E-1

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Learning About the E-1
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:11:41 -0600
Chuck,

What is your criteria for an acceptable histogram?

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Learning About the E-1


> Unless I'm metering individual lights in a studio arrangement or
> checking fill flash I don't even bother with a meter any more.  A couple
> of test shots and chimping the histogram will get the exposure nailed
> very quickly.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> jgettis81@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Not quite the answer you are looking for considering it is using flash. 
>> I
>> am planning on shooting photos at my brothers house on Thanksgiving but I
>> am going to set up a couple of vivitars on light stands to bounce off the
>> ceiling in oposite corners to provide light  for the photos.  I have a 
>> set
>> of cheap ebay radio slaves to set them off and a light meter to check
>> exposure.  Olympus content I am going to use my E-30 to take the photos
>> with.  John
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>> In anticipation of using my recently acquired E-1 at a Thanksgiving
>> gathering, where indoor light will be the norm, I decided to experiment
>> with such a setting to see how it performs.  Using items in a bookcase,
>> with normal room lighting, I set the camera to ISO 800 and tried several
>> exposure compensation settings, shooting RAW images for processing as 
>> usual
>> in PSE 6.0.  I was impressed.  Here is an example: A travel alarm clock
>> that belonged to my late father-in-law, on a bookcase shelf.
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Travel+Alarm+Clock.jpg.html
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have suggestions for indoor, no flash, shots with the E-1?
>>>>
>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
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