>>I don't understand how you can have detail in your highlights, but with 'no separation'.(posted 9021 days ago)I mean there is nothing "blown-out" like in my dense negs, just lacking contrast, i.e., flat. Boy I really should get a grip on some of these terms. Apparently, I don't know what "modeling" is either...
...Also I use a gray card and 10 'stop' grayscale of Johannes Itten's Art of Colour, which is produced to close tolerance. I usually look at the card, look at the subject value, then look at the grayscale, judge the distance in value, and meter accordingly, usually adding 1/2-1 stop for the shadows (though if my model is wearing dark clothing which is important to me, I'll meter the shadow of it and stop down 3-4 stops, and hope for the with development...).
...Also I used to use the spotmeter in my Contax, now from a borrowed camera, soon from a Seikonic L508...to which I will add the attachment.
Thanks guys.