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In our lastest video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-iD_XNpnrg&feature=youtu.be), we discussed the importance of adjusting your exposure based on the actual speed of your shutter. We've even published a handy chart that does the math for you. (See our previous blog post: https://shop.stearmanpress.com/blogs/news/about-that-shutter) Of course, this implies that you know your shutter's actual speed. Spoiler alert: it isn't what's marked on the dial. We've been asked if we had any suggestions for determining the actual shutter speed without buying a shutter speed test set. After all, what good is a ZoneCalc, if you can't control the zone! We've been measuring our shutters using a...

Shutter Speeds in the real world In our last video, Top Ten Things That I wish I had known when starting in Large Format Photography, I made some harsh remarks about shutters. Mainly, that they're notoriously inaccurate and that you should have them calibrated. This creates another issue: now that you've got a chart showing the marked speed vs the actual speed, what do you do with it? This is also an issue if your meter uses the more modern sequence: 1/30, 1/60, 1/125..., and your lens uses the traditional 1/25, 1/50, 1/100 ... Of course, the math required to...

Here's the expanded commentary from our video Top Ten Things That I wish I had known when starting in Large Format Photography. For some reason that I don't remember, we started with number 3.

By Don Stark

I’m typically not one to be excited about shooting expired film, but when my buddy Tim Gilbert at Stearman Press told me he had a roll of my favorite discontinued Kodak transparency film, that was a different matter.