09-27-2014, 05:37 AM
Recently I become interested in shooting films. So, I bought an old film camera and an old lens, from about 60s. The first thing I need to do is to check if the camera and lens work properly. So last week I put a Fujicolor C200 in it and shoot mainly out door.
The camera is mechanical without a meter. I downloaded a Pocket Light Meter app from the apple store. The app has a good review record on the internet. So I expect it should work reasonably right.
So, I shoot a roll of Fujicolor C200, metered with the Pocket Light Meter app. Then I sent the film roll to a local shop for development, printing, and negative scanning.
Yesterday I received the prints and the scanned images. When I look at the prints, I find the exposure is reasonably "correct" for most of them (with only a few maybe slightly overexposed). Based on the print observation, I would say that the camera works properly with reasonable accuracy in shutter speeds. However, when I look at the images scanned from the negative, almost all images look too bright (by 1/2-1 stop, I would say). This impression is confirmed by checking the exposure histogram in Photoshop CS6.
My question is: why the scanned image is not consistent with the print (in brightness, I know contrast can be different)? Does it meen the scanning was not done properly? For the purpose of checking exposure of my camera, should I trust the scanned image, or the prints?
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
The camera is mechanical without a meter. I downloaded a Pocket Light Meter app from the apple store. The app has a good review record on the internet. So I expect it should work reasonably right.
So, I shoot a roll of Fujicolor C200, metered with the Pocket Light Meter app. Then I sent the film roll to a local shop for development, printing, and negative scanning.
Yesterday I received the prints and the scanned images. When I look at the prints, I find the exposure is reasonably "correct" for most of them (with only a few maybe slightly overexposed). Based on the print observation, I would say that the camera works properly with reasonable accuracy in shutter speeds. However, when I look at the images scanned from the negative, almost all images look too bright (by 1/2-1 stop, I would say). This impression is confirmed by checking the exposure histogram in Photoshop CS6.
My question is: why the scanned image is not consistent with the print (in brightness, I know contrast can be different)? Does it meen the scanning was not done properly? For the purpose of checking exposure of my camera, should I trust the scanned image, or the prints?
Comments and suggestions are welcome.