Re: sunny 16

From: edwin gendron <egendron_at_domain.name.suppressed>
Date: Thu 05 Apr 2001 - 10:26:27 PDT

> > Using sunny/16, your exposure should be f/16
>> @ 1/25 secs. There are about 10 stops separating f/16 from f/500, therefore
>> for your camera, the uncorrected exposure time should be around 40
>>secs (2^10
> > * 1/25).

I realize this is an elementary question, but here goes:
Is the sunny-16 "setting" for a sunny day....
a twenty-fifth of a second @ f-16? (most cameras only have a 30th,
though it's not much difference)
or is it a one-hundred-and-twenty-fifth of a second @ f-16?

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Received on Thu Apr 5 13:26:40 2001

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