[Konvas] lab accident

[Daniel Weber]

< Is overexposing by a half stop a more or less normal practice these days? 
 >

Not uncommon but I would not say normal, some DOPs hate overexposure, as one 
makes the negative more dense the blacks are reproduced less faithfully. I 
once shot a test on 16mm with a boy and a dog. The boy had what looked like 
black hair in real life and the dog was a black and white border collie. As 
I over exposed the color negative past one stop the boy's hair turned dark 
brown yet the dog's coat still looked jet black. Two stops and his hair was 
just plain brown (the dog's still black). Even at 3 stops over the image 
still looked very normal and usable aside from loosing the blacks and some 
contrast. Shoot tests indoors and out, bracket exposures, take notes, (I do 
with a spot meter like the Kodak website examples) and you will become very 
confident when selecting an aperture.

Dan