u/Foot-Note

Properly metering with bellows?

Properly metering with bellows?

So I have a 6x6 camera that I can put bellows to shoot macro photography. Now thankfully the camera is new enough to have TTL metering. That being said, with strobes I have no idea where I am going to be at?

What I am trying to do: In a studio environment use the bellows to take macro shots of faces.

How I am currently doing it: Pushing tri-x to 1600 or 3200 and using a very bright light as the model light and completely ignoring the strobe function.

What I want to do with it: I actually want to use the strobe properly so I don't need to push the film so much. I just have no idea how meter it. Google is saying that if I go to .5 magnification its +1 stop, 1:1 magnification its +2 stops, ect. I have no idea how to judge that though.

Example photo if it being pushed to 1600 and just using a very bright model light.

https://preview.redd.it/7njgrxxqhr0h1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=0925a6d3e038aacfc1aca1d393e1444430afc05a

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u/Foot-Note — 1 day ago