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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.

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

thank you Lucy for sharing your passion for film photography! I always look forward to your videos!

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

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

You would like the Pentax 6x7, it sounds like a cannon going off in your hands!

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

Great photos and nice halation effect in the video. I have an old fully manual viewfinder camera. The first time I used it, I used a smartphone light meter app - it was spot on every time. I have since moved on to dedicated light meters, but it's nice to know that a free app on my phone can ensure perfect exposures every time.

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

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

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.

How fun!

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)

With an older film camera I recommend you get cleaned and have the shutter check and adjusted if needed. Happy filming

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.

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

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.

Great video Lucy. I would have shot with 35mm half frame for economic reasons, and shot my guessed exposure then shot what the light meter tells me, just to compare and contrast.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Nice video. Good subject RS. Canada

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

Incident metering! Long time user of the Texas Leica and my main meter is the L308 but last year I bought the Reflx lab to be more agile. Now I feel like I am out lost nor missing a built in meter. Gosh between 2014-16 when I had no meter and meter apps were so so (nothing much in android) I did miss and had to guesstimate a lot! More than just sunny 16, it's more variable conditions, city and shade towards afternoons where it is challenging to guess and really lovely to have these tools. Then there is E6 film -- the retributor of innacurate metering; but it rewards wonderful large slides on 6x9 120.

It’s good to slow down. Quality over quantity.

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 🙄

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.

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

Rad video!

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 !].

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

how in the world did you get the red halation on your highlights in the vid?

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

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.

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

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6X9 is the best format IMO. The best camera for 6x9 is the voigtlander Bessa II. Such an epic camera. The best 6x9 never made should would have been a Super Isollette that was sadly only ever made is 6x6. I have shot alot of photos on 6x9 using the Voiglander RF and the Bessa II. They always turn out so good. I owned the 'Texas Leica" for a brief period but it did not satisfy me more than what I already had with the Voigtlander cameras. A pocketable folder that can create amazing photos...no comparison. I hated the massive size. The viewfinder is nice but it is something I can easily live without. The Bessa III was so promising but the format sucked. They should have come out with a 6x9 from the start.

Lock it in Eddy! 🎉

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.

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.

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

Good video, reminded me of the sunny 16 rule and got me to do some research about it. Watch the video again and count how many "like" you say and for future videos I suggest you reduce the number of "like" in your sentences by about 2/3rds. Like, you know what I mean?

You should meter off your hand it’s closer to 18% grey than the grass. Or get a grey card!

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x1.25 !

$50 for developing and scanning is insane !! Time to start self developing and scanning , save you so much money and you can turnaround quicker Shoot the roll , go home dev in 15 minutes or so and scan in the same day (:

You should mention your film speed and we can play around with you. Are you pushing film, or pulling.

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 ✅