Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]+1! And Amen! Tina On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:01 PM, George Lottermoser < george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2015, at 9:00 PM, Larry Zeitlin via LUG wrote: > > > Again with all due respect, you are simply WRONG. > > It should be more than crystal clear by now: > > When we accurately describe our personal experience, > as Ted so often does, > no one should declare us "wrong." > > Your experience may, in fact, be very different from Ted's. > But that does not make either one of you wrong or correct. > > In my decade as photo journalist with manual cameras and no built in meters > I and the other journalists at any particular "event" rarely consulted a > light meter. > We knew what the exposures were from shooting in all seasons, times of day, > and various indoor locations. > > Our eyes, experience, mind coordination worked in its own way. > In the darkroom some of us developed our film using a green inspection > safe light; > just to make sure our intuitions served us correctly. > > And yes it certainly did feel KISS simple as pie. > > 99 times out of 100 when we did pull out the meter > we had guessed within a half stop anyway. > > Still today I'll be damn close in most situations. > > Photography IS pretty damn simple. > Focus. Shutter. Aperture. Expose (meaning press the damn button). > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html