Re: [Largeformat] Re: Photo 101 - Class 25 - Incident meters

[Pam Niedermayer <pam@pinehill.com>]

Oh, come on now, we all know that the more you know the less you need the fancy
stuff, the technical approach. We're all just trying to get as good as you are;
and one way to start is to use the meters, etc. :)

Pam

wd1346@airmail.net wrote:
> 
> 
> You photo purists create great envy in me.  I have long since lost
> patience with figuring everything out (metering, calculating
> recoprocity, bellows factor etc.).  I just guess and shoot a
> polaroid.  I know from the polaroid what my exposure should be and
> how the entire scene looks and what I need to alter if need be.  Once
> you become addicted to polaroid (charge it to the client mostly) then
> you can never go back to metering.  I never meter anymore and my son
> ran off with my meters anyway when he went off to photo school.  I
> went to Art Center College of Design and the school put more emphasis
> on Design and Composition than the technical aspects of photograph.
> We did have one class in photo math which was taught by a well loved
> little old wine maker looking gentleman.  I have many friends in the
> business who graduated from RIT who run circles around me in the
> technical dept.
> 
> Having said all that, I would like to cart my equipment out on the
> edge of some primeval cliff and photograph nature sans mankind---me
> and God sort of thing.  I will never really be a member of your club
> until I do I suspect.  However, as I get older I am looking more and
> more like Ansel Adams so at least that is a step in the right
> direction.
> 
> That may never happen though....my photo purist phase.... because I
> am lost to the evil world of Macs and Microsoft.  Instead of learning
> how to make platinum prints I spend all my time learning the latest
> techniques in Flash and Dos platform databases.
> 
> I think it has a lot to do with perspective.  In 1980 I traded in two
> Deardorff 8x10 cameras for one Sinar 8x10 Studio Camera and I still
> had to pay $3000.  I love my Sinars......but I would really love to
> have my
> Deardorfs back!
> 
> --Bill Diebold

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