[LargeFormat] Winter gloom?

[Edward Meyers]

With large leaf-shutters when stopped down a lot the actual
shutter speed becomes longer than set. Shutter speeds on leaf cameras are
figured at wide open aperture...with small apertures the shutter
time of opening and closing adds time to the overall setting. Ed

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Jim Hemenway wrote:

> 1/15th at f45 on 11x14 Ektachrome 100 using my 360mm f6.8 Symmar-S today
> in Boston.... basically Sunny 16 (+ or -).  43F at 10 AM, 51 now.
>
> philip lambert wrote:
> > When I was working for a concrete company in the Middle East I bought a zoom
> > lens for my camera and the roadtest said best definition was obtained at f8
> > so I took most of my pictures at f8 on 100  film and the shutter speed
> > typically was 1/2000.  Today with my Symmar at f16 my Gossen meter suggested
> > I open the shutter, go and put the kettle on and close the shutter on the
> > way back..  Definitely a monochrome day.  Colour saturation - what was that?
> > Philip
> >
> >>a civilized world, closed and boarded up for the Lord's day of rest.
> >>Unremitting gloom. It was a relief to find myself in Africa and then The
> >>Middle East.  At least it was sunny on Friday.
> >>
>
>
> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
>
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