Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/23

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Subject: Re: Re: [Leica] incidently - spin the ring
From: "Bernard Degaute" <bernard.degaute@club.innet.be>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 23:10:46 +0100

Original message, in part :
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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 06:10:46 -0800
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@islandnet.com>
Subject: Re: [Leica] incidently

Christer Almqvist wrote:

>Don't you guys bracket? I don't either. I halfbracket. Which means that  in
>addition to the metered reading I don't do a couple of underexposures and a
>couple of overexposures, but just one additional exposure.>>>>>>

Hi Christer,

Thought you might wonder about this bracketing method.:)

Photographers of a well known magazine when they had money to burn, used a
bracketing method called, "Spin the ring!" I know of a few others out there
that shoot this way or certainly heard they have used it.

Goes like this.

First frame, shoot metered exposure: Set winder or motor drive and then
fire camera while turning aperture ring all the way open and back to
smallest opening as the roll is finished.

Remove film, bracketing scene is completed. Insert new roll for next
situation.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Ted,

I think some people are getting crazy - maybe the moon. Pro :  no need to
meter  -  con : my pockets aren't deep enough to take the rolls.

Bernard

bernard.degaute@village.uunet.be