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Subject: [Leica] RE Cost of pictures/Today I took again the Monochrom and found a new friend
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 11:39:32 -0500
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:-)

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 9/3/2018 9:49 AM, Frank wrote:
> That?s funny! I once had a photomat guy observe that I must really like my 
> wife and cat because that was all I ever took photos of.
>
>
> Frank F. Farmer
> Jackson, Mississippi
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Sep 2, 2018, at 9:23 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwmalumni.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>> ...
>>> I'm reminded of a time after I found a really pretty good Mini lab in New
>>> Orleans with easy parking.  After a couple weeks, the lab manager took me
>>> aside, and offered to give me some photography training.
>>> He was concerned that for every shot I was making three identical images,
>>> except I was changing the exposure on each and wasting film.
>>> I asked him if he had ever heard of bracketing .
>> ===============================================================
>> I always had to be economical in my personal shooting, and we had tight
>> budgets at
>> the university too, so had to make do with careful metering.  I hardly 
>> ever
>> bracketed,
>> just shot shot multiple frames on slide film to have more originals, but
>> all at the same
>> exposure, metered with a Sekonic L-28 and sometimes also a Minolta spot
>> meter.
>> In a hurry, I found my OM-2n to be accurate on Auto, -1/3.
>>
>> -- 
>> Alan
>>
>> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
>> (Retired)
>> UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
>> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
>> amr3 at uwm.edu
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>>
>> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
>> for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
>>
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In reply to: Message from amr3 at uwmalumni.com (Alan Magayne-Roshak) ([Leica] RE Cost of pictures/Today I took again the Monochrom and found a new friend)
Message from frank at f3documentaryphotography.com (Frank) ([Leica] RE Cost of pictures/Today I took again the Monochrom and found a new friend)