exposure settings on slide film

[JayhawkJumper 0]

For those of you out there who shoot slides, what do you use for determining exposure. I usually shoot all manual and take several meter readings on the ground and average them out, but I usually end up a little off. Slides are very tricky to get just right, I was just wondering what settings everyone uses.

[fasterfaller 0]

I shoot a good deal of slide film from 35mm to 8x10 . I use a meter to set my f stop and then I bracket the shots in this order . -2-1,0,+1+2 and I am assured that I got the shot I needed .

[JayhawkJumper 0]

bracketing works really well, but there's just not time for it in the air, or enough film for it in one jump usually.

[quade 4]

For slides I'd usually under expose by 1 stop to get a little bit better saturation. Film selection is important and for skydiving it really depends on what your background is; sky or ground. See THIS article.

If you have a hemi-spherical meter and clouds are not an issue, then a single meter reading on the ground (pointed straight up at the sky) should suffice for everything except maybe an exit shot on the shade side of things.

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[Jib 0]

Did you mean underexpose? Or dial in ASA 40 on your camera for Velvia (ASA 50)?

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[quade 4]

By "under expose by 1 stop" I meant either let in less light due to a smaller aperture setting or let in less light as a function of time.

-1 f stop = 1/2 as much light = 1/2 as much time.

So a meter reading indicating f8 at 1/500th of a second I could have dealt with by either setting the exposure at f11 at 1/500th or f8 at 1/1000th depending on how I felt about the situation.

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