Sam Wells Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 But personally I don't like this; "five six eight" is way more of an 8 than a 5.6 ---- It's actually one reason I bought the Sekonic digital meters I have, I can look at the semi circle rather than read the tenths. But now it seems Sekonic has abandoned that... -Sam corrected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Maeda Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 (edited) ""five six eight" is way more of an 8 5.6 than a 5.6 ----" huh? Besides, it's kind of hard to yell out "five sixth and, like, most of a semi circle!" jk :ph34r: Edited August 25, 2006 by jasonkollias Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Wells Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 see correction. Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Maeda Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 o.k. huh? jk :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Maeda Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 ok now i get what you meant...sorry. "But personally I don't like this; "five six eight" is way more of an 8 than a 5.6" Yeah i think i see what you mean, but what I'm suggesting is that in my line of work if i'm off by a couple tenths (especially with polaroids or chrome) it's the difference between being good and terrible...hired or fired. the bottom line is that if i get a reading of f5.6 8/10ths and i set the camera for f8 it's going to be wrong. "five six eight" doesn't mean f5.6 or f8...it means 5.6 and 8/10ths. then again, when I shoot documentary work on super-8 or 16 i'm just guessing exposure most of the time...often i'll show up to a location, walk around and take some readings, write them on my hand and work off those until the light has changed significantly enough for me to start reading again. so i guess in many cases you're right, i'm not distinguishing between readings of a couple tenths. jk :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tony Brown Posted August 28, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted August 28, 2006 Hi, Douglas Slocombe http://imdb.com/name/nm0005878/ Stephen Sorry to disagree but Dougie never lit to 1/10ths. I shot Temple of Doom and Never Say Never with him and its true he never used a meter. Exteriors are easy enough and he lit interiors to f4.5 I think. Working with the same stocks for years and the same 10ks and brutes its not the black magic it appears. The only time I saw him with a meter was when shooting in the airport in Nice under fluorescents. Robin Vidgeon (then 1st AC) handed him a Spectra and Dougy looked confused for a moment, handed it back and called f4.5. Nice moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Kukla Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 Sorry to disagree but Dougie never lit to 1/10ths. I shot Temple of Doom and Never Say Never with him and its true he never used a meter. Exteriors are easy enough and he lit interiors to f4.5 I think. Working with the same stocks for years and the same 10ks and brutes its not the black magic it appears. The only time I saw him with a meter was when shooting in the airport in Nice under fluorescents. Robin Vidgeon (then 1st AC) handed him a Spectra and Dougy looked confused for a moment, handed it back and called f4.5. Nice moment. Interesting. Now when you say 4.5 do you mean 4 1/2 or 4 1/3? PS - You still keep in contact with Robin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tony Brown Posted August 28, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted August 28, 2006 Interesting. Now when you say 4.5 do you mean 4 1/2 or 4 1/3? PS - You still keep in contact with Robin? Sadly not seen Robin for years. Last bumped into him in some Spanish backwater about 8/9 years ago..... and to me 4.5 will always be 4 1/3 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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