Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/08

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Subject: [Leica] 2500 ISO
From: richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)
Date: Wed Nov 8 19:48:40 2006
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At 07:20 PM 11/8/2006, Douglas Herr wrote:


>On Nov 8, 2006, at 1:30 PM, Ted Grant wrote:
>
>>A sort of point. You may re-call a few weeks ago I had several photographs
>>sold for $750.00 each. A couple more have gone since, one of them a 13X19
>>flower picture shot with a 20D and Leica 80mm 1.4 lens and everything set 
>>on
>>automatic! :-) Just look through viewfinder, focus and go "click!" So maybe
>>you might understand why I have so much difficulty dealing with all the
>>technical stuff.
>
>IMHO, the automatic settings will do fine 90% to 95% or even 98% of the 
>time. The technical tweaking is for those of us who are anal about the 
>last 2%. of the time.

Ted: here's your answer!!!!

Your 90% effort, heck, 10% effort, is better than the best the we mortals 
can manage. So we want to tweak that 10% to, say, 11.7632%, to be :more: 
competitive with your stuff!


// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please 
use richard at imagecraft.com) 


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