>>3102915Someone call me out if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that metering for shadows is not quite the same on a digital device, as it doesn't capture shadow details as well unless it's pro DSLR stuff. Where as film has generally more latitude and can get shadow details, while retaining highlights. You can over expose film by 2/3 stops and still have a useable image, where with digital you start to loose highlight detail really fast when it's overexposed.
I'll do my best to explain, but I'm no expert and only recently started shooting this way.
But basically you have your scene with highlights, midtones and shadows. Generally you'd meter for the midtones/highlights. Your shadows would be kind of on the dark side with less detail. Doing this usually leads to a more "saturated" image imo. If you meter for the shadows, your essentially over exposing the image to some degree. This will lead to a "washed out" look with more muted colours and less saturation. Your shadows will also be lighter, resulting in more detail.
In reality I don't care about shadow detail and all that, I just like a more "washed out" colour palette. Colour negative films are great for this, especially Portra and 400H. All of the above is not possible with slide film.
