Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"B. D. Colen" wrote: > > At 10:59 AM 7/23/99 -0700, you wrote: > > >If I had any choice in the matter, I would give each of them: > > > >1 - manual camera > >1 - 50mm (or 35mm) lens of large aperture > >100 - rolls of side film. > > > >Wow...what a great 3 days that would be! > > Dr. Blacktape Suggests... > > Bring a roll of Black Tape to the first session. Inspect each student's > camera and use the Black Tape to turn each of the Zooms into a 50 or 35 for > the three days. Additionally, turn all the function switches to Manual and > then place a piece of Black Tape over the switches. > > You will have given them all manual cameras with nothing but "prime" > lenses. And you will have struck a blow for Dr. Blacktape and his faithful > companion, Tootsie.. ;-) > I did have a teacher Myron Kozman at Webster College in the '70's who had us put black tape over our viewfinders and shoot at least a full roll "blind." I recall that roll being the best many of the students did the whole term. I tell people to do that now and they really think it's questionable but it did something for me and others I can really say. Myron came out the Chicago Bauhous Moholy-nagy thing. Mark Rabiner