Timeline for Why are these film photos brighter than digital photos taken at the same time with the same settings?
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| Jun 24, 2016 at 3:28 | comment | added | JDługosz | Yea, digital cams have always underexposed on purpose to help with the overexposure clipping behavior. With a modern camera with more latitude, they will line up the bright edge of acceptable exposures across the two systems so they capture the same brightest object but the digitql has more darker range. Thus, if you reverse the historical direction and use a digital camera to determine exposure (the middle of the range) you will be overexposed if you use the same values on film. But that depends on the dynamic range of the scene. | |
| Jun 23, 2016 at 13:41 | comment | added | Dan Wolfgang | @ths: the OP said he used the same lens on both cameras. | |
| Jun 23, 2016 at 12:56 | comment | added | ths | there's also lens transmission. | |
| Jun 23, 2016 at 12:46 | comment | added | Dan Wolfgang | @dav1dsm1th: if only manufacturer's closely followed those standards for film speeds when labeling their products. | |
| Jun 23, 2016 at 12:42 | comment | added | Dan Wolfgang | @MichaelClark, yes, right. In hindsight it's unclear, but I was also trying to answer Piipsy's question in Rafael's answer: "The thing that bothers me is that the exposure meter on the analog camera was showing that the image is too bright and the exposure meter on the digital camera was about perfect exposure." I've updated my answer to note this. | |
| Jun 23, 2016 at 12:42 | history | edited | Dan Wolfgang | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarity about what questions I'm answering.
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| Jun 23, 2016 at 4:29 | comment | added | Michael C | @DanWolfgang But if ISO, Tv, and Av are already set manually why does metering matter since it won't affect exposure? | |
| Jun 23, 2016 at 3:17 | comment | added | db9dreamer | If only there was an international origanisation that could define a standard for film speeds. | |
| Jun 23, 2016 at 2:42 | comment | added | Dan Wolfgang | I agree that shutter speed and aperture should be the same from camera to camera, ISO isn't -- which is exactly what the DxOMark test I linked to shows. Which mens metering results are different then. | |
| Jun 23, 2016 at 2:26 | comment | added | Michael C | If the same Tv, Av, and ISO are selected manually then any differences in metering don't matter. | |
| Jun 23, 2016 at 1:04 | history | answered | Dan Wolfgang | CC BY-SA 3.0 |