Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Monday, February 15, 1999, Jim wrote: > I'll bet that's not true nowadays with EOS, AF, and all the rest. > Everything is getting to be so automatic, the days of young photographers > with the ability to look at any scene and just "know" it's 1/60th > at 5.6 with Tri-X etc. are probably long gone. And I'll bet you are way wrong. Auto exposure cameras have been around for decades. One of my first cameras was a Canon A1 with several auto modes. So I guess I don't know how to read light since I learned on an automatic camera? Just because a camera is automatic does not mean a a person does not have to learn how to expose film. The same rules apply regarding proper exposure now as they did 10, 15, 20 years ago. An auto camera will only get one so far...after that it is what you know and how you control the camera that creates the image. As someone on this list said several years ago...it aint the camera that makes the picture, it is the person pushing the button. If the Auto do everything cameras did it all for you I guess I wasted my day today setting up 5 lights doing a commercial photo shoot for an annual report...hell if what you say is correct I could have used my EOS 1n on program mode and TTL'd the on camera flash and gotten fine exposures. I am sure my agent and my client would have LOVED those shots! A good photographer knows his tools...film is one of those tools and a good photographer, no matter his age, knows what the exposure should be, within a decent range at least. Best regards, Harrison mailto:mcclary@iname.com http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto preview my book: http://www.volmania.com