[Leica] RE Cost of pictures/Today I took again the Monochrom and found a new friend

[Frank]

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 


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> 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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