Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- -----Original Message----- From: Noel H. Charchuk <nhcharch@calcna.ab.ca> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Friday, May 29, 1998 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Real men don't use a meter! > >Bravo, Marc, I agree. I was up at a ski race in the mountains this winter, >there was a pro dragging around a case full of the N word gear, messing >around with an incident meter. Meanwhile I had a Leica II, and the old >eyeball. Saw the pictures later, other than the telephoto shots, which I >wasn't doing couldn't see the difference between pictures, seemed like a >lot of effort. The thing that was baffling was this was a bright cclear >day the light wasn't changing, but the photographer kept checking it >again and again!?!?! > >Noel Charchuk >Calgary, Alberta > >On Fri, 29 May 1998, Marc James Small wrote: > >> >> At 48, I regard myself as merely "moderately ripened" and not yet as old, >> but I am perfectly happy metering most scenes using the "sunny 16" rule. >> It gets dicey, though, when working indoors or in low-light, and bracketing >> is a necessity here! >> >> Marc >> >> >> msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! >> >> >