Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In the sixties, when I was covering the marches, I wished my Spectra incident meter would have had a brown hemisphere instead of white. from my iPad Sonny Carter > On Feb 22, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > > I did notice it was the lead story in the business section, as opposed to > art and leisure. And then if you go to the photography section in the > magazine ("A True Picture of Black Skin"), you will learn that "cameras > and the mechanical tools of photography have rarely made it easy to > photograph black skin". But, one can work around these unfriendly tools, > such as adjusting a light meter for black skin. Another revelation was > that film emulsions were calibrated for white skin, and thus don't work > will with black, brown or red skin. > > Ken > >> On 2/21/2015 9:22 PM, Matt Kollasch wrote: >> Peter Lik >> ? is, as my father used to say, "laughing all the way to the bank." In my >> mind if you are IN Caesars Palace you ARE the joke.? But what do I know, I >> am no Peter Lik, a man rich in confidence. Never heard of him till this >> article, though. >> >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/business/peter-liks-recipe-for-success-sell-prints-print-money.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news# >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information