Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Zone blues
From: "A.H.SCHMIDT" <horsts@actek.com.au>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 10:51:44 +1000

LUGers,  look, I tried to be nice, I tried to be helpful, I tried to answer his
questions with the least amount of sarcasm i could muster under the circumstances,
but, I can't take any more of the shit that guy talks.  See the answer to my
bracketing suggestion.

Regards Horst Schmidt




Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> From: A.H.SCHMIDT <horst.schmidt@actek.com.au>
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 14:10
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Zone blues
>
> > Boy, are you lucky. If all what's wrong with your
> > negatives, is more ore less exposure.
>
> >From an exposure standpoint, that's all that _can_ be wrong with it.  The entire
> negative is exposed at once, so the only variable you can play with is EV, and
> that is a one-dimensional variable.  If the shadows are eight stops away from
> the highlights, there is nothing you can do to fix that.
>
> > Then all you have to do, is to use some bracketing.
>
> Bracketing is expensive.  I'd like to be able to get a decent result on one try.