[LargeFormat] Newbie alert - ? on using a strobe
Delano Mireles
largeformat@f32.net
Thu May 22 13:08:23 2003
Hi all,
a friend of mine has lent me his old B&J 4x5 w/Rodenstock 135mm. I
attempted to take some shots for the first time last night and was not
successful at all. Now, the lens does have something that trips the
strobe. So, using my L-358 I took a corded flash reading of 1/125 @
f22 with my Bee. I then set the lens according to this reading then
proceeded to take a couple of shots.
After developing the negs I turned on the lights to be disappointed by
seeing a blank neg. It looked like there was nothing on the negs at
all! After this happened on 4 frames I went back and took a regular
incident reading and shot two more frames 8 sec. @ f22 and had success.
I'm just assuming that the first run of negs were severely underexposed
and that's the reason why the negs came out clear.
There is something I am obviously missing here and I come to you for
any ideas or suggestions as to what could be the case here. The lens
does have a "tab" that can either be set to "M" or "X". I have no idea
what these are and how they factor in. I did try both setting and to
no avail...
Thanks for any insight you could offer this newbie!
Delano