Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/02

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Subject: [Leica] re: Exposure and Development
From: imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George)
Date: Fri Mar 2 12:40:30 2007
References: <90CBCC46-CC16-4554-A8DE-F9D3E71DA77D@mac.com> <004401c75d08$ccabc840$a302a8c0@ted>

Exactly my point Ted.

Your KISS technique = fine technique - simply - because you had  
standards which you stuck to. You knew where your shadows and  
highlights would fall because of tried and true experience over and  
over again. While you may not have done Ansel type zone tests; you  
made intuitive adjustments over time until you arrived at your  
working method.

You knew how your meters worked and you knew damn well what the  
f:stop and shutter speed was at 3 pm in october in Montreal, whether  
overcast or sunny, even without a meter; just as you could tell us,  
right now, what the exposure specs were for some iteration of  
ektachrome at at some olympic pool in 1982 - when you nailed the  
highlights in 600 exposures.

Sometimes, after enough experience knowing becomes intuition.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george@imagist.com



On Mar 2, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

> My gut feelings about this expose develop routine comes down to  
> major simple this way............. it really doesn't matter how the  
> heck other soul's do their film! It's far more important ..... "HOW  
> YOU DO YOURS! "   You know why?


In reply to: Message from imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George) ([Leica] re: Exposure and Development)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] re: Exposure and Development)