Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:14 AM 9/17/96 -0700, you wrote: > Also auto bracketing if >your film budget is long and your time is short. :-) Having seen your previous posts, Eric, I doubt you fall into the group who won't bracket to save a few bucks, but still: If you have invested thousands of dollars in camera equipment, and have yourself in position (perhaps at a cost of more thousands of dollars) to create an outstanding image, if you are using narrow-latitude film, and if in the situation you have time, why not bracket? I often hear opinions by people who imply (after they have spent their thousands of dollars) that it's wasteful and expensive to bracket! (It might have cost them $20,000 to be at the Mayan pyramid with their R8 and 4 lenses, but they won't spend an extra few dollars to make certain of the best possible exposure?) There is another strange view associated with this--if you know what you are doing, you don't have to bracket. Well, I assure you that the professional landscape photographers who work in color do when they can! One reason is that (following on my recent metering post): there is no such animal as an objectively "correct" exposure. It's an interpretive question (especially with the subtle changes available with slide film and 1/3 or 1/2 stop bracketing). If you bracket, you'll get to make a choice when the film comes back! Charles E. Love, Jr. 517 Warren Place Ithaca, New York 14850 607-272-7338 CEL14@CORNELL.EDU