{"id":4654,"date":"2025-04-06T13:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T12:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/?p=4654"},"modified":"2025-04-10T20:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T19:30:32","slug":"exposure-guide-for-kodak-ultramax-400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/06\/exposure-guide-for-kodak-ultramax-400\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposure guide for Kodak Ultramax 400"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I scanned the tab showing the exposure guide for Kodak Ultramax 400 colour film, also realising that the reciprocal to be applied in the Sunny 16 rule is 1\/250 s for ISO 400 film, and not 1\/500 s as I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-attachment-id=\"4655\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/06\/exposure-guide-for-kodak-ultramax-400\/kodak_ultramax_exposure\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kodak_Ultramax_Exposure.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1440\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;PerfectionV200&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1743942973&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright (C) 2025 -- Eddy Young&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kodak_Ultramax_Exposure\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kodak_Ultramax_Exposure-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kodak_Ultramax_Exposure-1024x768.jpg\" data-id=\"4655\" src=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kodak_Ultramax_Exposure-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kodak_Ultramax_Exposure-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kodak_Ultramax_Exposure-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kodak_Ultramax_Exposure-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kodak_Ultramax_Exposure-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kodak_Ultramax_Exposure.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I scanned the tab showing the exposure guide for Kodak Ultramax 400 colour film, also realising that the reciprocal to be applied in the Sunny 16 rule is 1\/250 s for ISO 400 film, and not 1\/500 s as I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9q5-1d4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4101,"url":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/18\/fooling-around-with-artificial-lighting\/","url_meta":{"origin":4654,"position":0},"title":"Fooling around with artificial lighting","author":"Eddy Young","date":"18 May 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I bought a fresh roll of Kodak Ultramax 400 to test the film in daylight and under artificial light. 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