Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Different strokes for different folks......I am more interested in tonal values, so a meter is always employed. It amazes how wrong you can be to use the sunny 16 rule if conditions are not just so...... it makes wonderful Kodak moments, but lousy zones. I do not record the data on an image. I also do not remember it. It makes no difference to me. There are those that like to record this data, develop their negs from it, etc. Fine, to each his own. Avid photographers do what makes them happy...... why be critical or accusatory or look down your nose at someone else's preferences? Seems wasteful of bandwidth, at least. There is room in the world for all of us. Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net Frank Filippone wrote: > It does help to learn what works, but paper and pencil have worked since > 1850 > or so, so why not continue? Ehhh ... if you need paper and pencil you're probably not a very avid photographer. You look at the light and you know: yes, that's 1/250 @ 5.6 light. Oh that one, it's 1/60 @ 2.8. The bright day? 1/500 @ 11. The one that is a little brighter than 1/250 @ 5.6 ... that's at f8.0 of course. There is really not a whole hell-uv-a-lot of different lights. There's bright light, there's over cast, there's overcast that's a little brighter and there's window light. Daniel