On 11-01-30 5:38 PM, Bob W wrote:
To be honest, I've never understand why people write this information down
after the event, and especially why they publish this information with their
pictures. I can't see how anyone else can benefit - I've never looked at a
photograph and wondered what aperture and shutter speed was used, and I've
no idea what to do with the information when people provide it.
The only value that I know of in having this information is when I write it
down before I take the photograph, as part of a trial or test plan. For
example, I want to understand a bit more about the Voigtlander 75mm lens I
bought a couple of months ago, so I have planned a series of shots, and
noted down the apertures I want to use to test different things. I'll use
these as my script, noting alongside them what I want to know, and later
when the shots are done make notes of what actually happened. This has value
to me, whereas wandering around doing general photography, then noting the
technicals never has.
I greatly appreciate seeing exposure details in order to learn. While
examining shots I admire and want to learn from, I mentally
reverse-engineer the shot; how might I have taken that? Where's the
light? Was flash used? What lens would have given this DoF and FoV?
How would I have set the exposure controls? Then I inspect the EXIF to
see how close my guesses were.
And, while we're on the subject, looking for an app that does it strikes me
as a classic example of techno overkill.
Me too. Much easier to simply use a camera that records this info
automatically, like any of Pentax' digital models, old or new. :-)
-bmw
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