Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, Maybe you should gain some expereience ruining the best products of Fuji and Konica as well! On Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:40:01 -0500 Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> writes: >At 09:28 PM 1/29/98 -0600, Eric Welch, tireless proponent of the Leica >system, wrote: > >>And meters really won't give you "daylight" type exposures. In that >kind of >>light, mediocre meters will overexpose film. Good meters, with >>inexperienced photographers might under or over expose film. >> >>Nothing to do but shoot, study the film and then shoot again. There >are no >>magic formula here. > > >Back when I was learning photography, many, many years gone by, they >stressed bracketing, on the theory that 'film is cheap, the picture is >priceless'. Try it: you'll like it! > >I can shoot a roll of b&w film in my M3 without worrying, as I'm a >fair >judge of exposure (I have a LOT of experience ruining the best >products of >Kodak, Agfa, and Ilford!). I will bracket a tad on tough shots with >colour >negative emulsions. With chromes, I bracket like the daylights and >don't >trust the meter without THINKING about what it is telling me. > >An auto-camera? You've got to be kidding. I have thirty-five years >of >mistakes to programme this grand old metering system in my brainpan. > >Marc > > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]