Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/06

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Subject: [Leica] Leica books
From: Robert Appleby <robert.appleby@tin.it>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 09:38:48 +0100

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Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 15:28:10 -0500
From: Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Books
Message-ID: <B62B2D09.50E2%john@pinkheadedbug.com>
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I think that's all pretty sound advice, actually. I'd give them a meter for
a week and make them make notes of exposures, then I'd take it away from
them. I find myself shooting without a meter a LOT these days and haven't
noticed the slightest difference from my metered shots. On chrome I probably
would.
>>>

Believe me, you would. You'd need something like absolute pitch to shoot
chromes with a meterless camera. When i was doing a lot of B+W for fun in
the 80s, I didn't have a meter. Things came out OK. But I like chromes
because either they're right or they're wrong (within narrow limits). And
that makes it even more of a challenge. Sometimes my hands are trembling
when I get the stuff back from the lab.

>>>>>
You could steal all my lenses except the 35/1.4 and I wouldn't cry.
>>>

Bring them to London in December, then.
Rob.