neal

I saw a 35mm demo of the stock. This was a 500T. As far as I know it will only be availible in that speed. The roll out will be March 1st. The demo was fairly impressive. The stock very, very sharp and clear, with not much grain. Though I think the only way to really judge a stock's performance is to shoot a test oneself... I couldn't quite judge dynamic range from the demo.

Exposure values (eVs) translate f-stop numbers into a linear scale, which makes it much easier to compare them. It's very helpful when using a spot meter to do a scene brightness evalutation. Say, for example, that you take a reading of the grass in a scene, and it reads eV 2 .... and then you take a reading of the sky and it says ev 9, then you know that the sky is 7 stops brighter. It just makes the mental calculations alot easier.

No, no correction is really necessary. 200 degrees isn't too significant of a difference. It'll make skintones warmer and they'll look better on film.

The best way to bring the levels down below 100 is to change the lighting of a scene itself, not the signal level.

On a related question...how would I go about obtaining a Grey Card Plus? through my local Kodak rep as well? Thanks in advance John, you're the best.

Thanks very much for the responses. I'll probably e Oscar - I believe you are correct on the matter. My understanding is that the ANSI standard for calibrating a meter is 12% reflectance gray. A standard graycard is 18%...apparently a half stop difference. So if you take a flat incident diffuser reading at the gray card's position, and compare it to a spot reading, the two will not compare. Though, I could be wrong about this. (I belive there's a discussion over at CML about this). Though I don't believe that was quite what Bob was referring to. If you compare two spot meters' readings of a gray card, they should be the same. Correct me if i'm wrong, Neal

Hi, new poster to the forum, have been reading it for awhile though. just wondering, has anyone used the sekonic 558c? i'm guessing it's a new model. i know alot of people have 508Cs. i have a meter that's painfully old (it may exceed me in years, though i'm young :) ) Just in the market, looking to upgrade. Thanks Neal