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Subject: [Leica] What are the most important aspects of a photographic image ?
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:58:24 -0500

Which circle of confusion did you pick?


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Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
mark at rabinergroup.com
Cars:   http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb




> From: leo wesson <leowesson at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 20:41:38 -0600
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] What are the most important aspects of a photographic
> image ?
> 
> Who?
> 
> Thanks!
> Leo Wesson
> 817.733.9157
> www.leowesson.com
> 
> 
> On Jan 3, 2011, at 19:30, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
> 
>> My first photo seminar was with a Famous West Coast Photographer.  His 
>> advice
>> was ditch the 35mm and get a real camera (I think I brought an M3 and a
>> couple of Summicrons, or maybe a Contax to the class, but definitely 
>> TriX).
>> So I bought a nice 4x5 field outfit, a Linhof Technica and lenses, and for
>> good measure an 8x10 rig also.  The focus part was a little tedious.  Once
>> you knew the distance to the target, you pulled out a little chart for 
>> each
>> lens that showed the range of focus for each stop, based on your desired
>> circle of confusion.  Then you measured the various zones, which gave you 
>> the
>> key to the ISO for that shot and thus the development time for that
>> particular sheet, based on your densitometer tests.  After, of course, you
>> had consulted your reciprocity failure chart.  Sometimes it happened that 
>> by
>> the time I made the exposure everything of interest, including the light, 
>> had
>> vanished.  Then the light bulb began to flicker on that something
>> more...immediate...m
>  ight be appropriate.  Then, Gracia Dios, along came digital and the 
> exposure
> comp dial.
>> 
>> Ken
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/3/2011 6:33 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>> I think its nice to get the thing in focus most the time.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --------------------
>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>> Photography
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>>> mark at rabinergroup.com
>>> Cars:   http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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