edwin posted, among many other things:
> The more I think about the idea of "perfect" exposure the more I think it
> is an almost useless, unattainable concept.
>
> The initial comment was that despite the supposed exposure latitude of
> negative films, an exposure a
Hi,
Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 1:28:13 PM, you wrote:
> As I recall, the comment provoking much of that was that HCB could eyeball
> perfect exposure, and then someone said with b&w film experienced photographers
> could get close enough to make printable images.
> I'm
Everytime I walk out of the house with a camera around my neck, I play a
little game. I "guess the exposure", set the camera accordingly, and then
see how it meters. I'm rarely off by more than a stop; usually I'm withing
1/2 stop.
And, I'm truly not saying that to brag; quite the contrary.
> > Now, as good as HCB was, no one was (or is) better than
> > Shel Belinkoff, late of this list
>
> His initials are SCB. Maybe that has something to do with it .
SCB = Super Cartier-Bresson
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On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, frank theriault wrote:
> Everytime I walk out of the house with a camera around my neck, I play a
> little game. I "guess the exposure", set the camera accordingly, and then
> see how it meters. I'm rarely off by more than a stop; usually I'm withing
> 1/2 stop.
I did ex
those are 50,000 different exposure situations. you have a lot of
situations, but not necessarily a lot of different ones.
Herb
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> those are 50,000 different exposure situations. you have a lot of
> situations, but not necessarily a lot of different ones.
True, a lot of my bazillions of exposures were made in similar situations.
What the camera actually has, presumably, is 50,000 sets of relative
values for the multiple
time you
could spend on making a better composition or looking for the exact moment.
Herb
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> What the camera actually has, presum
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