Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John Collier wrote: > > I hate passing on anecdotes when I cannot remember the name of the > photographer conerned (I guess not enough to stop me) but perhaps someone > will have heard the same story and can supply her name. It was during the > depression and a noted FSA photographer was asked how she got such perfectly > exposed negs every time! Her never fail technique was to start at one end of > the shutter speed dial and work through every aperture at every speed > setting. Does anyone have a Leica 72 they would not mind lending me so I can > try this? > > John Collier I just got an photo invitation from a guy who set up a backdrop in his basement and bought a pricey strobe but was too chinsey to get a flash meter. So he spin the ring and got the shot. There was no educated guess. And not a bad shot. But we convinced him to finally get a flash meter though. They've gotten cheap enough. I had to slyly tell in he was in a "special Category of being the only "guy" with a $3000 studio strobe somehow using it without a meter. Mark Rabiner