I’m starting to doubt whether buying a light meter was a good idea.
I can’t make much sense of it, given the glacial exposure times I am working with. What I would like to find is a reliable way of converting EV or LV measurements to times, given a fixed aperture and shutter speed. I only have one variable to work with, after all.
I went to take my weekly picture of the local P-Patch and the meter had some outrageous value (4 minutes) where my crib sheet I have been using was just a bit lower.
Working from that, I went with a bracketed approach of 7 and 20 seconds. It was getting toward dusk and pretty cloudy but after the blown out two minute exposure I took last week and my research into the reciprocity characteristics of Fuji RVP (it has no reciprocity failure until after about 2 minutes), I decided to go with what has worked before. Yes, the two minute time came from this sheet, so it’s by no means fool-proof. Or perhaps I’m not the fool it was tested with.
I think I should test this out and if it works, I’ll sell the meter and go on my way.