Garrett Davis
New member
Hello,
I just shot my first project on 16mm at school. I've come from always using a digital camera and this was my first time shooting on film. The last week before this little test short for class I tried to overload on everything I could about stocks, latitude, etc. Our teacher gave us each 400 feet of the new vision 3 250 to shoot on the streets of NYC.
I was worried about backlit sunlight a lot as its always been a problem for me to control with my HVX. Though I can see what's happening on my HVX LCD and try my best to split one way or the other, with film its tough not seeing it right anyway.
From reading on forums like this I found its best to underexpose a little bit. And also that film negative handles overexposure much better the digital. On my meter I was getting a 2 1/2 to sometimes 2 2/3 difference between when my meter was getting hit by sunlight vs shade. I underexposed usually 1 stop when I was getting a 2 1/2 difference and 1 1/3 when I was getting 2 2/3 difference.
I feel like I was being too conservative though I guess I can always tweak it in Color Correction if I found its still a little bright.
I just shot my first project on 16mm at school. I've come from always using a digital camera and this was my first time shooting on film. The last week before this little test short for class I tried to overload on everything I could about stocks, latitude, etc. Our teacher gave us each 400 feet of the new vision 3 250 to shoot on the streets of NYC.
I was worried about backlit sunlight a lot as its always been a problem for me to control with my HVX. Though I can see what's happening on my HVX LCD and try my best to split one way or the other, with film its tough not seeing it right anyway.
From reading on forums like this I found its best to underexpose a little bit. And also that film negative handles overexposure much better the digital. On my meter I was getting a 2 1/2 to sometimes 2 2/3 difference between when my meter was getting hit by sunlight vs shade. I underexposed usually 1 stop when I was getting a 2 1/2 difference and 1 1/3 when I was getting 2 2/3 difference.
I feel like I was being too conservative though I guess I can always tweak it in Color Correction if I found its still a little bright.
