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As much as those meters are designed for a film cameras shoe they are vastly inferior to any other form of meter than an old school selenium cell one due to the spot and incident metering they have, I feel bad enough charging the prices we do for film let alone suggesting someone spend way too much (any) money on a meter over free apps with more accurate metering

Super excited to see you tackle medium format and very very excited to see the comparison between sunny 16 and light meter

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Great video Lucy!!! I have one of these and they work perfectly! Keep up the great videos, we love them! hope you ate well after that day! :)

Ive been sing the keks light meter for awhile now and it's always very good on metering. Also, I just got the gw690 recently and love it as well. Great video!

Great video! Love this experiment between the meter and sunny 16. You're absolutely delightful on camera, and the video itself looks incredible!!

Hi Lucy, Thanks for your Texas Leica - Sunny 16 video. I've had mine for a while and the GW690 produces fantastic photos. I used a very basic hand held Sekonic L-208 Light Meter and used to shoot both B&W (Tri-X of T-Max) and Colour (Portra 400 or 800). I also used a strong torch sometimes at night if I had a difficult-to-use focus point to aid in aligning the rangefinder focus shape. However, I eventually found the whole process too expensive, costing approximately $120AU per roll taking into account the cost of film, development, printing and scanning using a lab in the Sydney CBD. I have recently found a Fujifilm GA645 at a good price on fleabay and will be trying it out in the next couple of weeks ... as an alternative.

A reflective meter with a wider angle like the Keks isn’t too precise in situations like these either. Because bright spots will bring the ball exposure down. You wanna point it so it reads more of the shadow area in order to not underexpose. But also 1/3 of a stop difference either way isn’t really an issue. Slide film has +/- 1/3 stop of wiggle room and Leicas tolerance for calibrating cameras is also 1/3 stop. I think it’d be interesting to make a video like this comparing Sunny 16, to the Keks, to an incident meter.

How fun!

No, Lucy, that reference to "Eddie" one would attribute to the movie Venom, with Tom hardy, aka Eddie, the character, Venom uses this as internal talking when referencing his human host.

Lucy, one other tip, I use my phone, just recently, when shooting with my H1 on film (HM16-32 back), and it IS essential that you take notes, I used office 365 on my phone to get excel to make my notes easy, and it syncs with my desktop/laptop at home, so any change gets done on all devices as the file is accessed on phone, but cloud stored. But you can use the old school pen/pencil and paper, if the phone is too distracting, esp. for millennials, and after, for us 1980's kids we use it for what we need, no addiction, just functional tools. [just think, a phone is way better than having to carry a bunch of floppy or hard disks with you !].

The light meter measure a 30-degree angle and average it. That's why you sometimes get unexpected measures. The shady area should be exposed at f/4 maybe at f/5.6 your light meter is just triggered by the sky being too bright.

great video, one tip, I shoot MF (hasselblads {V+H}), and due to the nature of them, dof, and glare sensitivity, I use low ASA in Australia, esp. in summer (EV:15 and up), and use my Nikon Z6 and it's matrix metering +histogram to judge highlight tones, and if they clip the histogram, use a filter (ND) or lens hood, shooting away from the direct sun.

damn that thing is huge! I really wanted 6x8 version but I doubt it's smaller, and I'm thinking to reconsider but have zero clue on any other 6x8 cameras, only 6x7 and quite fragile and expensive ones (like Fuji GF670 and Plaubel Makina)

You hit the spot with this video! I have used sunny 16 since 1965 and limit myself to three full stop adjustments each for shutter speed, aperture and ISO, I never look at the camera after the first setting for the day and adjust by the sound of the click, 3 clicks equals 1 stop. Lucky I am the only one who sees my images.

You should consider a wrist strap for a rig like this... Makes me nervous, haha. ... Sure you could find something real smashing.

1:44 Is it just me or is there an orange fringe going on with the white pillars?

Great video Lucy!!! The photos are beautiful and you have inspired me to practice sunny 16 more 😉

As far as metering goes I think a general "rule" that is good to follow (although doesn't always apply to all situations obviously) is the Sunny 16 rule in bright sunlight, 1-2 stops more (so f/11 or f/8) for cloudy overcast days, and f/8 or f/5.6 for "open shade"). I think your assessment of f/4 for the dark shaded area was probably pretty close. But these are what I've sort of gone with (assuming ISO 100 of course, hence starting with the Sunny 16 rule). Luckily the light meter in my OM1 still works very well (and if it's off, it's only off by 1/3 of a stop at most but usually right on). But just as a test I did shoot a roll without the light meter and for the most part, works out fine using the Sunny 16 rule as a basis. Obviously areas of high dynamic range can be challenging still (with or without a meter although a meter may help you determine a good exposure to balance things out). Getting used to it though (after shooting digital) does take some adjustment because of how the spot meter works and it's effective metering area which is probably larger than a digital camera's spot metering.

if someone is judgmental about using a light meter then it means they’re a toxic person. professional artists use light meters. regardless of their own knowledge to approximate well. getting it accurate is more important than an ego. also, sunny 16 is a legitimate metering technique. u are a technical photographer and have been this whole time.

Really fun video! Yes, you were obviously out of your comfort zone but you powered through. My TX Leica is a 1948 Kodak Tourist 6x9 folding bellows rig. Scale focusing, fully adjustable exposure. I use Sunny 16 as a rule but carry a small Sekonic meter just in case. I only shoot B&W and process and scan at home. Keeps it affordable 😊 And yes I do use it as a walk around camera. I just walk real slow 🙄

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It would have been interesting to shoot the scene with your prediction then take the same photo again with the light meter and see if there’s a noticeable real world difference between your estimation and the light meter reading.

Love your work. I was raised on film. I no longer have a darkroom. Film and developing is so expensive. I purchased a Nikon digital camera and love the images it produces. Thank you for all your hard work. Hi from Sandpoint, Idaho USA.

Great video Lucy! I know you're not a technical photographer but I released a video just yesterday where I talk about all the different ways to meter and do some tests to see how different methods stack up against each other. Spoiler: Sunny 16 is actually super effective

12:30 Technically on 6x9, 3 shots nearly is the half roll that you would have normally shot by now. :)

A comparison, that would be interesting, would be you could take 2 images, one with what you thought and the other with the meter’s settings and then see how different the actual images would be.

I like your photos. They're simple, and that's what we all need sometimes. Like the artist Johannes Vermeer, he did homey paintings in the era where his peers were painting saints and royalty. Renaissance era slice of life. Not everything has to make a big statement. Sometimes the statement is it's okay to be plain and simple.

How do you edit your videos? That red haze more specifically! Love it!

Rad video!

Great video. What language are you speaking ? Thank you for this excellent presentation RS. Canada

Nice video. Good subject RS. Canada

5:28 theres a shutter button on the front of the camera to use when shooting in portrait orientation! Makes it a lot easier to use vertically

the colors on this video are CUTE. literally how did you get red cinestill-like halation in the background!?

lock this video in Eddie! another great one, what i love the most about your videos is your raw, natural way of presenting.

Lock it in Eddy! 🎉

Stopping by from Instagram, wonder if you’ve been on a podcast to talk about your photography background before 🫵📸💻 Would be dope to feature you and your work ✅

Yikes! I recommend at least a wrist strap with that big clunker.

I never really cared for medium format film photography. I use to shoot weddings with a Bronica the square format. the good thing about the square format my viewfinder had the crop lines in it so if I needed 4:3 I just saw it in the viewfinder and when I got my negatives back I could just put it in a card and crop the negative on the card and tape it down. The new digital medium format from like Fuji those cameras are small so I think some of that gear is not as bad but some of those lens are still big.

This is super cool, thanks. A lovely vibe :)

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You are so incredibly silly! My god are you funny!!

My E PLs do this amazingly! I use one for portraiture and the subjects love it.

A moment of your time! I am canvasing film youtubers for the 2024 presidential election. If you're undecided, please watch my film photography political satire youtube short "Digital Trump vs Film Biden"

I have had 3 of these cameras and every single one the lens mechanism broke as unlike the rest of the camera the lens internals is fragile poor designed plastic . Fantastic camera as is the x10 but just build quality in a let down

Where did u buy the strap?

Congrats on 3 years on RUclips, friend! xx

For digital, I find my Panasonic GX85 (yes, with the Pana 20mm f1.7) is quite compact and very capable. For film, I've enjoyed carrying around a Ricoh 500g/500GS, as it's so small and does tend to grab some attention!

I've had them all, been shooting Nikon since the 90s and just recently picked up an OM2 with the 28mm and have to say I wish I tried Olympus a long time ago. Never seen a sharper viewfinder and that shutter sound.....oh my this thing is going to go through film like a fat kid eating cake!

@8:35, that's one problem I don't think I'll have for a very long time: Showing of the technical capabilities of the photographer. 🙂