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Re: [OM] (OM) (OT) Looking back

Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) (OT) Looking back
From: Bill Stanke <bstanke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:51:59 -0700
Winsor,

True, but Rick had to use his "computer brain" to control those old
beasts.

I'm taking an enrichment photography course right now at the University
of Idaho.  The instructor is making all of us use manual exposure, and
meter off of a gray card.  His slogan is that "automatic cameras are
automatically wrong most of the time." 

Of course, the poor soul shoots N*k*n; he might feel differently if he
ever met an OM-4 Ti!

Bill Stanke

Winsor Crosby wrote:
> 
> >John Lind wrote: I can hold a Kodachrome...and wonder at how well my
> >father was able to estimate exposures and compose his photographs
> >over 50 years ago.
> >
> >Dunno about your dad, John, but 50 years ago I was using both
> >Wesson and Gossen meters for exposure 'estimation', and composing on
> >a 6X6 Rolleiflex TLR screen or a 4X5 Graphic, and snap shooting with
> >a Leica IIIF... those weren't exactly the stone ages.
> >
> >Rick in VA-USA
> >
> 
> Compared with the latest electronic marvel with computational power
> of an early desktop computer to control exposure, shutter, focus on
> whatever you are looking at, manipulate CCD image,  motors to move
> lens elements, wind film? Yeah, that was stone age, maybe even
> Jurassic.
> --
> Winsor Crosby
> Long Beach, California
> 
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