Metering for Film
Introduction
This was originally intended to be a printed manual. Realizing there is probably a stronger desire to have an online form, I have adapted it to a series of blog posts.
This summarizes what I have learned about metering for film and the principles I use.
I welcome comments, questions, or someone pointing out where I have something wrong. I wrote this as a resource so others don’t have to spend so long learning what I learned. There are many ways of explain things so if something is not clear please comment so I can make it more useful.
The best way through is to follow the links from one chapter to the next. Substack makes it difficult to maintain a set of ordered posts.
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Photographic Metering and Motivation
You are most likely reading this because you are interested in improving your understanding of metering in photography and how this might improve your craft. I too was there and spent many years with a Gossen digital meter making good and bad images with average metering and film cameras. A meter is not essential to getting good results but one is neces…
Doug Morse
