Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/04

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Subject: [Leica] LUG Digest, Vol 47, Issue 31
From: bs.pearce at cox.net (Bill Pearce)
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 14:13:19 -0600
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In my experience, I have found that it takes a very special unusual person
to be able to apply that level of technical regidity in a way that does not
sap the life from art.

 

Bill Pearce

 

> 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





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