Changing ISO-100 film to 200 on N6006
Hong Q.Nguyen
Hi all
I have a question regarding my Nikon N6006. I read somewhere in the
magazine that when one uses the ISO-100, he can change to ISO-200
by one stop. Is that correct ? If so then how do I change the stop
on my N6006? I guess it should be the exposure compensation +/-5 dial ...
And what is the purpose to do so ?
All responses will be greatly appreciated.
Chris
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Yuan 'Hacker' Chang
Hong Q.Nguyen <hon...@itsa.ucsf.edu> wrote:
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-I have a question regarding my Nikon N6006. I read somewhere in the
-magazine that when one uses the ISO-100, he can change to ISO-200
-by one stop. Is that correct?
Yes, that's a one stop difference.
-If so then how do I change the stop on my N6006?
You mean changing the Exposure Index, or the ISO. This is in
the manual. Change to manual ISO setting by Shift-ISO (so that DX
display on the LCD disappears), and then rotate the main dial while
holding down the ISO button.
-I guess it should be the exposure compensation +/-5 dial ...
It's just different way of looking at the same thing. Take a
light reading of a scene at normal settings, change the ISO to 200
(another reading), change the ISO back to 100 and set exp. comp. to -1.
Does this give the same values as ISO 200 reading? It should.
-And what is the purpose to do so?
Quite a few different purposes. I suggest reading the magazine
you've mentioned to see what was THEIR purpose for doing so.
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I'm not familiar with your camera but there should
be a way to manually set the film speed to what ever
you want. Check your manual. You could get the
same effect by setting exposure compensation to -1.
Either way you are causing the cameras meter to
indicate an exposure that is equivilent to one
f-stop less. There are several situations where
people will do this but just as an example, lets
say you're shooting color slides of birds with
iso-100 film at 1/30 and you think that the
birds will be little blurry because they wont
hold still. You want to shoot at 1/60 so you
set the film speed setting on your camera to 200
instead of 100, load a new roll of film, and
fire away, underexposing all your pictures by
1 stop. Then take the film to a lab that will
do push processing and tell them to push it 1
stop, i.e., over develope it to correct for your
under exposure.
Allan Tingey
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to change the ISO setting.
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> On the N6006 you hold the ISO button down while moving the command dial
> to change the ISO setting.
If the little "DX" sign is lit up on the LCD screen, press and hold
the SHIFT button, then hit the ISO button at the same time. This will
turn off the Automatic DX film speed settings. Now you may hold the
ISO button down and turn the command dial to change the film speed
setting.
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Keith Jordan
>
>If the little "DX" sign is lit up on the LCD screen, press and hold
>the SHIFT button, then hit the ISO button at the same time. This will
>turn off the Automatic DX film speed settings. Now you may hold the
>ISO button down and turn the command dial to change the film speed
>setting.
You don't even have to do that if you want to adjust it only per roll.
But I want to point out something that seems obvious to a lot of us but
might not be to some: By doing this you're just telling the CAMERA the ISO
is different. If you don't take that into account when processing, your
negatives will be underexposed.
This technique is called "pushing." When you set the camera you're just
resetting the light meter. Pushing is in the processing.
Keith
Raleigh, NC