Calculating View Camera Exposure - The Spotmeter

Another video in my series of B&W Workflow videos. Here we look at calculating the camera exposure for the Wilderness V view camera and for the Fuji GX680. I use the Minolta Spotmeter and a simplified version of the Zone System to decide where I want the image tones to sit in the tonal range as well as a consideration of the Subject Brightness Range. I mention briefly the idea of whether we should expand the SBR using the N+1 N-1 approach of Ansel Adams. I don't do this since I think that the right approach is to leave the contrast of the film as it is and then match the contrast of the resulting negative tot eh contrast range of the photographic paper.


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