Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]henry wrote: > > Issac wrote: > > Here's where I disagree. In many outdoor situations, a meter just isn't > >needed if you have some experience and confidence in your experience. > > I have experience and confidence. > Experience says use the meter. > Confidence because I do. > I don't blindly follow what it says, I interpret it with experience. > > btw: Experience also says have an extra meter. > > Having said this I do make lots of interpretive adjustments to what the > meter tells me. I may meter once and adjust for the changes on the fly > without consulting the meter. This to me is the ideal... > > But sometimes you just got to have a meter. People who make their living > photographing have an economic gun to their head. That gun might go off > if they don't make the exposure they plan for. > > This "no meter" exposure thing comes up every so often. I guess if you > use only one film and one camera you can squeek by making pictures for > yourself this way. I've keep hearing this "one film, one camera" routine and I don't understand it at all. Exposure is exposure. Think of how you learned another language. At first, everything had to be translated to your original language before you could understand it. At a certain point, you just start to think in the other language. I started learning ASA 100, and quickly translated it into other speeds. Now I can think in different speeds! At one point I was using my M6, IIIf, a crown graphic, and a K1000 (stop laughing!) with film speeds ranging from 25 to 400 and not having trouble getting good exposures without a meter. It just takes some getting used to. Anyway, I'm not trying to say never use a meter, just that being able to shoot without one is a good skill to have. I don't really see how it can hurt you... It can certainly help the decision process after you turn it back on... And if that suits you then go ahead and enjoy yourself. Thank you, I plan on it!:-) Isaac > > Henry