The out-of-production Quantum Calcu-Light XP is a very accurate simple
(inexpensive) meter with a dial that is easy to extrapolate beyond the
marked settting of 128. For me with pinhole, dial meters seem to be
faster to use than the digital type.
There are also exposure charts in Eric Renner's book and Jim Lehman's
Black Cat guide among other lower tech solutions. I use a meter indoors
but outside pretty much just wing it.
I'm starting on a series of pinhole portraits with short telephoto focal
lengths and fstops around f150. An exercise to purge having had to look
at, and critique, someone's studio-strobe lit, muslin backdropped,
nikkor lensed, figure studies. I know, of course, that soft doesn't make
a bad photo good but bad and too sharp is just awful to me.
Howard Wells
chad white wrote:
>
> what is a good light meter for pinhole f-stops ? i am lurking e-bay ,i
> what to buy a light meter that can be used practically for pinhole. i
> don't want to use the math. i just want a simple light meter so i can
> spend my energy taking pinhole images. i noticed that most light-meters
> stop about f-16. f-225 or higher is better for me.
>
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Received on Tue Jun 4 08:11:09 2002
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