RE: Re: sunny 16

Re: sunny 161/100 for ei 100 film...1/125 is usually close enough
f16 1/film speed

andy
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  Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:26 PM
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  Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Re: sunny 16

> 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 14:04:36 2001