Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, I am surprised to hear that YOU of all people are one of the poor "meter slaves" of photography! Cast off your chains man! Nikon/Canon etc are making a small fortune on the fallacy that light needs to be 'interpreted'. That tasty F5 with it's mega processor super light do-jangy still tells me F6.3 at 500 in the sun...F4 at 125 in the shade. Hey, what gives? With all that great technology I was hoping for some new kind of readings! F22 at 1000 indoors! F1.4 at 60 in the sun! The fact is that you just don't have THAT many variations in light intensity in the real world (thank you to the film latitude gods). Unless the sun starts to supernova in our life times I think we can count on it to keep kickin out the rays as before. Shine on baby! Best wishes Dan States > >The effete amateur esthetic!! >Out guessing or ignoring a meter!! >That's baloney!!!!! >We've had a few others on the list who had this attitude. >We pummeled them into submission and they slunked off to the dark rocks >they >crawled out of!! :) > >I've used a lot of meters since 1965 and never thought for a second i knew >more >about how much light was hitting it than it did. With the exception of >Selenium >meters i add a stop to in low light. > >I don't think it benefits people to mistrust their meters. >I know lots of excellent photographers many of them pros. I cant think of >any of >them who would use a meter which was less adequate in measuring light then >they were. >Many of them use meters which not only MEASURE the light but interpret it >(matrix whatever) >But the top people i know know how to use the (acurate) information the >meter >gives them. >If they are metering highlights. The then know how much to open up to place >thier highlights there. > >Mark Rabiner >Portland, Oregon >USA > >http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com