On Wednesday, February 06, 2002 at 8:00, Tris Schuler
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wrote re "Re: [OM] great photos from cheap equipment?" saying:
...
> >I think it was David Vestal who had his students set their cameras -- even
> >Leicas -- to a fixed aperture and shutter speed, and at the hyperfocal
> >distance for that aperture. He wanted his students to pay attention to the
> >subject, not to the technical aspects of making the picture. (This is
> >significant, because Vestal was a real fussbudget about technical quality.)
How did the pix of the ants come out? Or the portraits? Or the footballers?
Or the stage performers?
An interesting exercise, but only good for scenery on a sunny day.
Did he tape up the viewfinders, too?
tOM
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