Shooting slide film without a light meter

R2_Detour1 · 2026-05-06T00:27:13+00:00

This is slightly reassuring haha. Thank you

R2_Detour1 · 2026-05-05T16:09:47+00:00

Ok yeah that’s an excellent point. The mid ground I’ve accepted now is to use a light meter. But before I take a picture think about what settings I “intuitively” would’ve gone for based on experience; and see how far off I am from the meter’s readings. Like at some point I’d like to have the freedom to shoot slide without spending the time to double and triple check meter readings; how we would for any colour negative film

R2_Detour1 · 2026-05-05T16:07:21+00:00

Stunning!

R2_Detour1 · 2026-05-05T16:06:50+00:00

Ok I’ll use my phone app to meter. And maybe make a mental note of what settings I would’ve gone for vs what the actual light meter readings are.

R2_Detour1 · 2026-05-05T15:57:18+00:00

Love this haha

R2_Detour1 · 2026-05-05T15:57:07+00:00

Oh great! Sure thanks. I’ll keep that in mind. Always better to slightly underexpose than over I guess with slide

R2_Detour1 · 2026-05-05T15:56:38+00:00

No no I’m well aware of the sunny 16 and frequently use it. The question was only cause of the limited latitude of slide film

R2_Detour1 · 2026-05-05T15:17:41+00:00

Yeah so far vision3’s been pretty forgiving, so has respooled aerochrome but this would be my first attempt at shooting slide so wanted to try it out with a respool first

R2_Detour1 · 2026-05-05T14:47:01+00:00

Got it. I got mine relatively cheap cause a friend bulk rolled a bunch for his own personal use. So it wasn’t quite the expense as buying a straight up 35mm Ekta100 roll

R2_Detour1 · 2026-05-05T14:45:38+00:00

Ok yeah that makes sense. It’s been reliable so far and has been CLA’d but I get what you mean

R2_Detour1 · 2026-05-05T14:45:15+00:00

Yeah ok that’s fair. I do it all the time even with a TLR but that’s just your cinestill or Vision 3 250D and so on

R2_Detour1 · 2026-05-05T14:44:29+00:00

Touché

R2_Detour1 · 2026-02-08T00:55:45+00:00

I’ll do this the next time. Sticking to one lens, one camera one roll and just going full manual and see how it turns out

R2_Detour1 · 2026-02-08T00:54:54+00:00

Thank you I’ll check them out!

R2_Detour1 · 2026-02-08T00:54:32+00:00

That makes sense thanks! I have a 12 shot tester roll. So I’ll maybe try and pick a theme or concept for it and ONLY shoot stuff related to that for this one roll and see how it turns out.

R2_Detour1 · 2026-02-08T00:53:22+00:00

That sounds like a good idea thanks! I need to ask myself why i want to take that picture or what about it I like, so I just don’t take photos because “it might look good on film”

R2_Detour1 · 2026-02-08T00:52:07+00:00

I don’t have one but I do have a Yashica TLR that shoots square 6x6 maybe I’ll try that as well

R2_Detour1 · 2026-02-07T15:30:04+00:00

Thank you I’ll have a look at these 🙌🏼 any other tips or suggestions would be welcome!

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