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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Casual Portrait with Summilux 50 asph
From: leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)
Date: Mon Mar 3 08:45:03 2008
References: <1204562005.47cc285527957@panthermail.uwm.edu>

Alan,

I shoot manual all the time, especially if I have a light source (or window
or overcast sky) in the finder area.



Leo Wesson
Photographer/Videographer
817.733.9157


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> Do any of you out there use the "M" setting, at least for interiors?
>  Maybe
> since I'm used to estimating exposure with meterless cameras, I shoot
> digital
> on manual most of the time, especially indoors.  This way I don't have to
> second guess the "brain" to keep the values on the subject consistent, no
> matter if there are lights in the frame, or a dark background,  etc.  Much
> of
> my work is in unchanging light, so I use the histogram to confirm my
> choice of
> settings.  I hate having to use buttons to hold exposure for each shot.
>
> Alan
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> University Information Technology Services
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> amr3@uwm.edu
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>
>
>

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