That the whole real interest started when I met my Wife.. I had just gone to buy a camera and didn’t really think about it until we were about to get married and I gave my brother my camera to take pictures of our wedding. That’s when I started getting hooked. I started taking my camera along to find things to capture and then bought another digital camera to take pictures of my Son when he was born of course the Daddy taking pics of his little kid really started it rolling I had a Minolta Maxxum 5000i that I had gotten when I first went to Japan and Hong Kong but was not happy with it as the pictures came out foggy.. well I thought am I that bad? but I used the lens it came with and not the lens I bought in HK and found no the pictures came out really clear. Thats when I realized that the lens was most of my problem it didn’t seem to work well with my camera no matter what I did it was off.
My Minolta lens worked great but the cheap Sigma I bought from HK (Maybe it was a Sigma knockoff?) didn’t.
Well that lens never saw use after that and 8 years later I pulled it out after buying a Sony A100 Digital SLR and it was UGH! the lens was noticeably foggy and the Grease was all over the lens making it super sticky which wouldn’t clean off ack! and I was going to give it a second chance too.
Well I got lucky and found on Ebay a Minolta “BeerCan” 70-210mm f1.4 lens and a 50mm f1.7 w/ a Minolta STsi with a broken latch for $50 Just the “Beercan” itself would have made it a great deal that lens is Awesome!
Now you can see some of the pictures I’ve taken on Flickr at Terr93′s Photos
haha so I went and bought a Bronica ETR Medium Format Camera now going back to film
and I don’t know how to use it… bah! me a product of Auto everything cameras…
Well after a bit of searching and I found the “Sunny 16 Rule” Oh man this is going to save my butt heh.
It goes something like this:
Set your Aperture (F-stop) to F16
Set your ISO to what ever film speed you have.
for example you have ISO 100 film.
Set your shutter speed to match your ISO
in the example above the ISO is 100 so set your shutter speed to 1/100 or the closest to it.
now…
Going by Light, Exposure, and the Conditions we can determine what to use.
Sunny
Shutter: Should be set closest to the ISO so if using ASA 100 use 1/125 if that’s the closest, Lens opening: f/16
Dark with sharp edges
Slightly overcast
Add 1 stop to f/16: f/11
Shadows are Bright with fuzzy edges
Overcast
Add 2 stops to f/16: f/8
Shadows are Barely visible
Heavy overcast
Add 3 stops to f/16: f/5.6
Shadows are Absent
Open shade
Add 4 stops to f/16: f/4
Shadows are Absent
And if using
Backlighting
Add 1 stop to f/16: f/11
ok if you are confused.. maybe this will make it clearer
ISO 100
Shutter speed: 1/125
f/16 for Sunny
f/11 for Slight Overcast
f/8 for Overcast
f/5.6 for Heavy Overcast
f/4 for Sunset
After learning this it’s pretty easy I don’t even need a light meter now
Funny as it seems…
That the whole real interest started when I met my Wife.. I had just gone to buy a camera and didn’t really think about it until we were about to get married and I gave my brother my camera to take pictures of our wedding. That’s when I started getting hooked. I started taking my camera along to find things to capture and then bought another digital camera to take pictures of my Son when he was born of course the Daddy taking pics of his little kid really started it rolling I had a Minolta Maxxum 5000i that I had gotten when I first went to Japan and Hong Kong but was not happy with it as the pictures came out foggy.. well I thought am I that bad? but I used the lens it came with and not the lens I bought in HK and found no the pictures came out really clear. Thats when I realized that the lens was most of my problem it didn’t seem to work well with my camera no matter what I did it was off.
My Minolta lens worked great but the cheap Sigma I bought from HK (Maybe it was a Sigma knockoff?) didn’t.
Well that lens never saw use after that and 8 years later I pulled it out after buying a Sony A100 Digital SLR and it was UGH! the lens was noticeably foggy and the Grease was all over the lens making it super sticky which wouldn’t clean off ack! and I was going to give it a second chance too.
Well I got lucky and found on Ebay a Minolta “BeerCan” 70-210mm f1.4 lens and a 50mm f1.7 w/ a Minolta STsi with a broken latch for $50 Just the “Beercan” itself would have made it a great deal that lens is Awesome!
Now you can see some of the pictures I’ve taken on Flickr at
Terr93′s Photos
haha so I went and bought a Bronica ETR Medium Format Camera now going back to film
and I don’t know how to use it… bah! me a product of Auto everything cameras…
Well after a bit of searching and I found the “Sunny 16 Rule” Oh man this is going to save my butt heh.
It goes something like this:
Set your Aperture (F-stop) to F16
Set your ISO to what ever film speed you have.
for example you have ISO 100 film.
Set your shutter speed to match your ISO
in the example above the ISO is 100 so set your shutter speed to 1/100 or the closest to it.
now…
Going by Light, Exposure, and the Conditions we can determine what to use.
Sunny
Shutter: Should be set closest to the ISO so if using ASA 100 use 1/125 if that’s the closest, Lens opening: f/16
Dark with sharp edges
Slightly overcast
Add 1 stop to f/16: f/11
Shadows are Bright with fuzzy edges
Overcast
Add 2 stops to f/16: f/8
Shadows are Barely visible
Heavy overcast
Add 3 stops to f/16: f/5.6
Shadows are Absent
Open shade
Add 4 stops to f/16: f/4
Shadows are Absent
And if using
Backlighting
Add 1 stop to f/16: f/11
ok if you are confused.. maybe this will make it clearer
ISO 100
Shutter speed: 1/125
f/16 for Sunny
f/11 for Slight Overcast
f/8 for Overcast
f/5.6 for Heavy Overcast
f/4 for Sunset
After learning this it’s pretty easy I don’t even need a light meter now