[Leica] Monochrom metadata and uncoded lenses

Sat Feb 14 11:58:37 PST 2015

I marvel that, amid this verbal tsunami, my question was actually answered!
Thanks to all who can keep on point.

-Lew Schwartz

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> HI Nathan,
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> Yes I'm sure I may have done some of that. But without question because in
> my case even though having a regular job. Every other minute I was out
> shooting all kinds of stuff. In many cases during the "long days of summer
> with light at dawn I was out looking for picture moments until it was time
> for my regular job. Camera still with me there were all kinds of picture
> moments in and about Ottawa until sunset and after! J
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> Mine was a week long class room. Some weeks I'd shoot 20 or more rolls a
> week. Out shooting until darkness before I'd return home. Then soup all the
> film exposed that day. Make contact proof sheets of all the film from the
> previous days photo adventures. Saturdays and sometimes on Sunday I was at
> the local dirt track speedway shooting stock car racing. Irene would sit on
> the hood of the car parked in the pits watching the race from there. And on
> occasion would sell 8X10 b&W prints for a dollar to crew members from other
> pit crews. And we'd go home with $50.oo dollars or more in our pockets! AND
> A BIG SMILE!:-)
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> I wasnt' a "roll of film a week shooter!" I would buy 100' rolls of tri-x
> and load my own cassettes!  It could be 10 rolls a day or more shooting! My
> introduction was like walking into a  big class room and shoot, shoot day
> after day. Other photo buddies where always writing stuff down. ME?? I
> learned by doing so much shooting because so much of it just came naturally
> without a lot of writing and reading. Or if you read something in a
> magazine and there was time immediately to try it?  I was out the door on a
> new learning adventure trying whatever the new stuff was. Obviously lots of
> the nonsensical stuff I never bothered with.
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> Learning portrait lighting my children were still in high chairs. So
> that's where they were against blank cream white wall while I learned what
> all kinds of portrait lighting effects were and practiced. And yes
> (un-willing at times) Irene sat in as an adult model.
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> It was a truly "WE LEARN BY DOING!!!!!!)  Not just reading and writing
> notes! J And a few snaps once in awhile. Irene at times would say "SHE WAS
> A PHOTO WIDOW!" J But all that paid off in later years!
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> cheers,
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> ted
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf
> Of Nathan Wajsman
> Sent: February-14-15 9:53 AM
> To: lug Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Monochrom metadata and uncoded lenses
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> Ted, when I was learning photography back in the mid-80s, I did write down
> exposure data. When you are learning, it can be useful to keep track of
> aperture and shutter speed, so as to better understand the effect of
> aperture on depth of field, for example, or shutter speed vs. motion blur.
> Today, our digital cameras record this info automatically; I doubt that it
> adds more than €0.10 to the cost of any camera.
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> Cheers,
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> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> Alicante, Spain
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> > On 14 Feb 2015, at 18:45, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
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> > Frank Dernie OFFERED MOST INTERESTINLY:
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> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Monochrom metadata and uncoded lenses
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> >>> The camera measures the difference between the light coming through the
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> > lens onto the exposure meter cells and the light impinging on the little
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> > frosted plastic window on front of the camera. It calculates from the
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> > difference what the aperture value must be. It is not spot on but good
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> > enough for record keeping.
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> > Frank D.<<<<
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> > HI Frank
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> > Please accept this question not as some "smart-ass question from a
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> > non-technical photographer?"
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> > But please explain in common-man's language  "what does much of this
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> > actually do for the quality of the photo content?" I read about this
> stuff,
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> > then look at some of the captured images with some of these so called
> wonder
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> > cameras  compared to those out of an M3--M5 --M6 and my immediate
> re-action
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> > is? "SO BIG DEAL THE PHOTO IS CRAP!"
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> > If long before all this new fangled whiz-bang "COSTLY MANUFACTURING CAME
> IN
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> > VOGUE?" Creating a double, nay a tripling in some cases of a Leica cost.
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> > Along with so much  other weird named stuff?
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> > Many many people shot magnificent photo moments of incredible subjects
> and
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> > captured "LIFE TIME MOMENTS!". And some if not many? Are still doing so!
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> > This stuff we're talking about, does it really really make your photos
> rate
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> > being on the cover of "LIFE? LOOK" PARIS MATCH, DER SPEGIAL????? NATIONAL
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> > GEO?  If so then fair enough and I'll stop questioning all.
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> > However? If it does diddlysquat but get the "belly hairs on some
> scientific
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> > gizmo designer excited?" Certainly without obvious in the image content?
> Why
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> > bother the buyers in doubling the cost of the cameras?
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> > If whatever they add on will make my photos jump off the pages of my new
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> > books? Fair enough, I'll shut up for ever! Now if ever there was a tough
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> > call about me and equipment ????????? I'll have to bite my tounge very
> hard!
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> > :-(
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> > Thank you for your usual kind and understanding responses.
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> > cheers,
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> > ted
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