christina_tullo

<p>hi. i have a question. basically im just getting into wedding photo, and the weddings i have shot in the past i have done proofing through the mail with dvds- i would send one to the customer, and the customer would write back to me and tell me which image numbers to make black and white and which to make sepia. i was wondering, is there such a thing as a gallery software that would let me post photos online and give the viewer the option of choosing black and white or sepia as an option as an indication to me? does such a thing exist?i tried to look a bit, but i havent found anything. i dont need it to sell prints for me.</p>

<p>thanks!</p>

Thanks for the help Mark. I just wrote an email over to Bogen. The fact that you said you

have no problems with inconsistencies with the meter with new batteries makes me feel

much better because I've read a lot of stuff saying the opposite, that the meter is not

reliable with different batteries. But I'll see what happens.

And I actaully already have an instruction book. But thank you anyway :)

Thanks again everyone for the help.

Christina

I got my LunaSix in the mail the other day. As far as I can tell, it's not modified to accept new

batteries instead of the old mercury ones. Anyway I also heard that when you modify it to

accept different battery types, it messes with the meter's ability to uh....well, meter, haha. Is

that true?

I dunno....I'm still kind of considering the DigiSix.

hmm. ok. Thank you, I appreciate your quick response. I think (even though it's more than I originally intended to spend, how does that ALWAYS happen with photo stuff? :) ) I'm going to look into a DigiSix, I really like its compact size. Does anyone know what the camera shoe attachment does? Does it make it so the camera actually uses that reading? Or does it just kind of hold the meter?

See my subject matter is, I am into urban exploration, aka running around in abandoned buildings taking photos basically, haha. I tend to travel with both a Nikon D50 for color, and I also use a Nikon FM10 loaded with bw film because I can't seem to give bw film up. I love it. Anyway the meter on the Fm10 is mainly the problem I am trying to solve here, not the D50 meter. But what would happen if I bought the camera shoe attachement and atached it to the D50? Any idea?

Thanks,

Christina

Hi all, I need some advice, and I have tried to scan the forum but haven't found my answer yet. Basically, I

need a light meter. I do a lot of shooting in low light, and the meter on my Nikon FM10 is not cutting it,

only because it can only meter longer exposures to say 4 seconds or so, and it won't give me a shutter

speed reading higher than that. I shoot a lot of exposures of 8 seconds, 10 seconds, etc etc so as you can

see this doesn't work for me.

I just need an incident light meter, and I only want to spend 100 bucks (or less than.) the smaller and

simpler the better, etc etc since I will be carrying it an traveling on my feet with it. Someone recomended

for me to get a gossen lunasix, so I ordered one off of keh.com, and I endedup getting a Gossen LunSix 3,

which needs mercury batteries which are no longer manufactured, and I've looked into modifying it,

adapting it for different batteries, etc, and it would make the meter totally unpredictable. So I'm just

gonna return it and look into something else I think.

Can anybody help me out? I've never ventured into the realm of light meters before and I'm daunted by the

possibilities. I thought I had the answer, and now I'm just frustrated.

Thank you so much,

Christina.

Thanks for everyone's help. I really appreciate it.

When I'm shooting in these extreme light situations, I am often shooting with both the

35mm bw slr and also my d50, a dslr. The light meter on the dslr is able to handle these

lighting situations and give me readings. if I have the same exact lens on both cameras, a

50mm 1.8, could I use the light meter reading off the dslr as a guide and just kind of

bracket around that you think? I know film and digital are two completely different beasts.

But film is slightly more forgiving in exposure and light than digital.....BUT I know the

sensor on the dslr magnifies the lens length by 1.5....so would that be a bad idea? Or does

anyone have any idea if I can just as a rule always expose a stop or two above or below

what that meter is telling me for my bw exposures? Just wondering if anybody had any

experience in this.

It's amazing, I've been doing photo for years, but with automatic cameras, you never

realize what you really DON'T know until you begin entering situations like this, where

your knowledge needs to extend beyond your equipment's capabilities.

Hi, I'm somewhat new to this site, but I've been poking around a bit, seems really knowledgable. Anyway,

I'm shooting with a Manual Nikon SLR, I'm shooting black and white film, but I'm often shooting in areas

with low light. I'm using a 50mm 1.8 lens, and I'm trying to close up my fstop ring to try and keep a

decent DOF of my shots, I'm doing many interiors. Anyway, I'm running into an issue where my exposures

are consistently 1 second, 2 seconds, 4 seconds or more. That's fine and all, but I'm having a problem

getting a correct exposure. Basically what's going on is, the light meter in my camera says not enough

light. Ok, fine. so maybe the shutter is set to 2 seconds. I will cycle through every f-stop on that lens ring

and not a single one will change that not enough light reading. So ok, fine, change the shutter speed to a

slower one- the next slowest one is 4 seconds. Now there's TOO MUCH light. And every f-stop I try says

there is too much. Granted I am photographing very rought light situations- I photograph ruins, and

sometimes I am in a dark room with a blown out window or the like. But I can't seem to find a correct

exposure that my camera approves of!!!! I know the light meter works fine. Should I get a different camera

body with better shutter speeds to choose from? I have an FM10, A very basica camera, and the shutter

speeds stop at about 4 seconds I believe before I have to choose Bulb.

Actually that brings me to another question- I don't mind long exposures, but I can't set my camera for

anything longer than 4 seconds without needing to do bulb. Is there a manual nikon body that would have

longer preset shutter speeds? Or do you think I should start learning to use a light meter? I know they are

much more reliable in weird lighting than a camera's overall meter. If that is the route i should take, can

someone reccomend A. a light meter that is not too expensive, I am on a budget here, and B. Where I can

read up on light meter usage? I don't have any knowledge on the types of light meters (spot, incident, etc)

and how to use them.

Thanks so much for everyone's help in advance. I really appreciate it.

Christina