Tuesday, July 5, 2011

New Set-Up

I shot a few test rolls with a new set-up I'm trying out - shooting a Canon EOS 3, using a Sekonic L-508 for metering, but still sticking with the same lens (Canon EF 50mm f/1.4) and film (Fuji NPZ 800) I usually use. I was pretty sure that using the same lens and film would still give me results pretty similar to what I was doing before, but apparently throwing in 2 new variables totally changes things up. Focusing was off, colors got all weird, there was way more vignetting and some weird aberrations going on in the edges, and my exposures were all over the place; I had frames that were under-exposed and too grainy, and frames that were way overexposed and washed out all from the same location and lighting. Some of this stuff I thought would be a result of the lens and not the camera, but the lens is the same I've always used so I have no idea what happened. In the end I only got a small handful of frames that were usable. I'll keep shooting to get more familiar with this new combo and see if I can tweak it a bit.



Canon EOS 3
Fuji NPZ 800

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