Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Cole Weston, nice guy and a good teacher. Plus we got to hold EW 8x10 negs in our little hands, print in Amidol and all that. Ken On 1/3/2011 8:41 PM, LeoWesson wrote: > Who? > > Thanks! > Leo Wesson > 817.733.9157 > www.leowesson.com > > > On Jan 3, 2011, at 19:30, Ken Carney<kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > >> My first photo seminar was with a Famous West Coast Photographer. His >> advice was ditch the 35mm and get a real camera (I think I brought an M3 >> and a couple of Summicrons, or maybe a Contax to the class, but >> definitely TriX). So I bought a nice 4x5 field outfit, a Linhof Technica >> and lenses, and for good measure an 8x10 rig also. The focus part was a >> little tedious. Once you knew the distance to the target, you pulled out >> a little chart for each lens that showed the range of focus for each >> stop, based on your desired circle of confusion. Then you measured the >> various zones, which gave you the key to the ISO for that shot and thus >> the development time for that particular sheet, based on your >> densitometer tests. After, of course, you had consulted your reciprocity >> failure chart. Sometimes it happened that by the time I made the >> exposure everything of interest, including the light, had vanished. Then >> the light bulb began to flicker on that something more...immediate...m > ight be appropriate. Then, Gracia Dios, along came digital and the > exposure comp dial. >> Ken >> >> >> >> On 1/3/2011 6:33 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >>> I think its nice to get the thing in focus most the time. >>> >>> >>> -------------------- >>> Mark William Rabiner >>> Photography >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >>> mark at rabinergroup.com >>> Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >