Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:12 AM 9/9/97 -3, you wrote: >Hello, all > >It's a widely known fact in Brazil that Sebasti=E3o Salgado (brazilian)=20 >uses Leica cameras and ...No meter! What makes this a fact? An R6 has a meter, and why in the world would he use an M5 if he didn't want a meter? >Well, with a standard film, standard processing and experience, it's=20 >quite easy to guess the time/aperture combination in a "normal"=20 >environment. But what about those foggy backlights in very early=20 >morning or late afternoon we can see in "Workers"and in "Terra"? And=20 >the tricky ones, like inside factories, in oil drills, or inside poor=20 >wooden houses? >Is it a trend among photojournalists? I mean, no meter, faster=20 >pictures... This is not a trend, and in fact is not likely true. You don't get faster pictures with or without a meter. Salgado does a lot of waiting for his pictures, since he does not manipulate the situation. He waits for decisive moments to happen. Lots of time to meter, and even when he doesn't have time, metering is quite fast nowadays. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO