Do you expose the film accurately or overexpose?

I usually hear this sort of comment from slide shooters; that for print film your exposure can be off by X number of stops because you can make up for it during printing. I have always found this advice to be flawed since it encourages sloppy exposure. It is true that you can compensate somewhat to give 'acceptable' results but an accurately exposed negative will produce an exceptional print. There is no replacement for proper exposure no matter what the medium.

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