[Leica] Zeiss Planar T and no beer

[George Lottermoser]

On Sep 21, 2015, at 11:37 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com>wrote:
> 
>> back in the day:
>> growing up in a commercial photo studio:
>> primarily shooting 8x10, 5x7 and 4x5 chromes
>> all the brackets were in 1/3 stops
> 
>> 1/3 under
>> 1/3 over
>> and dead on
> 
>> That's what was done on every single studio shot.
>> Insured 3 usable exposures
>> with subtly nuanced differences in the shadows and highlights.
> 
>> a note off the iPad, George
> ==============================================================================
> In my career at the university, we didn't have the budgets of a commercial
> operation, and our clients
> (other departments or art students) were in the same boat, so I had to do
> without  bracketing for the most
> part - we had to be stingy on supplies. From 1980 on I bulk loaded all our
> B&W and slide film except for
> Kodachrome, and got very intimate with my Sekonic L-28 and Minolta spot
> meter, especially for
> transparencies (mainly 35mm, with some 4x5).
> 
> I know this wouldn't have worked in the "real world', but it's what we had
> to do.

Yup. Same for most of my "editorial" and "personal - fine art work."

Regards,
George Lottermoser 

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