Old Sarge said:And it wasn't like Kodachrome (wasn't it ASA 10?) had any latitude at all. You got it right or didn't get it.
You have to go back quite a ways to find ASA 10, as it was discontinued in 1962. I used to shoot Kodachrome 64 and 200 on occasion. They had it in 25 ASA for quite a while too but I don't recall if I ever used it. I shot Velvia 50 (exposed at ASA 40 usually) quite a bit for landscapes. That was slow enough for me - it boggles the mind how people got the shots they did when ASA 8 was all they had! ;D
Slide film in general has a pretty narrow exposure latitude, but I had a pretty good success rate using the in-camera meter on my EOS 10S, provided that I remembered to compensate for backlit subjects. These days I have a nifty Voightlander meter which mounts on a flash shoe, and it works great when I take one of my old medium format cameras out for a spin (most of them didn't come with built-in meters).
I remember thinking that the meter sucked when I first bought my EOS 10S, but I soon discovered that my exposures were fine and it was the print film processing that was the issue. I switched to slide film and the problem went away. I actually find it harder to get the correct exposure on my 5D2, and I find myself checking the histogram and taking the shot again after changing the settings. I probably should just take a class to learn how to do it right... :
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