Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John, you made me laugh tonight. You are absolutely right about some of the newer digital only photographers not really knowing some of the basics. Some can run rungs around me on computer processes though. Richard Richard Clompus, OD Sent from my iPhone On Jul 14, 2009, at 8:28 PM, "J. Newell" <john.o.newell at comcast.net> wrote: > > > I just about fall over every time I think about how completely > "standards" have changed. Lots of folks talk as if there were some > perfect white balance number. Hello, remember the difference > between KM and KR? And how about the gulf between those and > Ektachrome? What about the non-Rochester brands? And we're talking > "daylight" films here. Want excitement? Shoot tungsten (except > that no one under the age of 45 even knows that non-daylight films > were ever manufactured). > > > > Or "high ISO performance." Ahem, how about ASA? Remember what 800 > or 1600 looked like in 1975? And all these criticisms come from > people who want "high ISO performance" because they want to shoot > cr at ppy variable aperture zooms racked all the way out (so, f/5.6), > don't know how to properly hold the camera or release the shutter > and never thought of a tripod. Oh, and are happy using their pop-up > powerless flash but couldn't do guide number math to save their souls. > > > > Or the fixation on 1:1 crops, from people who will never in their > lives see a photo at more than 75dpi, print nothing, frame nothing, > show nothing. But ya gotta see them crops, man. This lens is a stud. > > > > I could go on but I'm running a fever for reasons having absolutely > nothing to do with Leicas... ;-) > > > > Regards > > John > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information