Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Of course, this reminds me of the famous black cat thread, in which I battled many of the LUG who tried to convince me that it was impossible for me to meter and photograph my cat with my M6 successfully. ;-) from my iPad Sonny Carter > On Feb 22, 2015, at 6:14 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > > In the sixties, when I was covering the marches, I wished my Spectra > incident meter would have had a brown hemisphere instead of white. > > from my iPad > > Sonny Carter > >> On Feb 22, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: >> >> I did notice it was the lead story in the business section, as opposed to >> art and leisure. And then if you go to the photography section in the >> magazine ("A True Picture of Black Skin"), you will learn that "cameras >> and the mechanical tools of photography have rarely made it easy to >> photograph black skin". But, one can work around these unfriendly >> tools, such as adjusting a light meter for black skin. Another >> revelation was that film emulsions were calibrated for white skin, and >> thus don't work will with black, brown or red skin. >> >> Ken >> >>> On 2/21/2015 9:22 PM, Matt Kollasch wrote: >>> Peter Lik >>> ? is, as my father used to say, "laughing all the way to the bank." In my >>> mind if you are IN Caesars Palace you ARE the joke.? But what do I know, >>> I >>> am no Peter Lik, a man rich in confidence. Never heard of him till this >>> article, though. >>> >>> >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/business/peter-liks-recipe-for-success-sell-prints-print-money.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news# >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information