Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] metering
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 06:12:44 -0500

At 11:32 PM 4/8/98 -0400, you wrote:

>Messing up is critical. A person who does not mess up is not learning. I tell
>everyone I teach photography to to begin by just taking pictures using the
>exposure guide in the film box, mess up, studying the result and trying
not to
>mess up the same way next time. 
>
>Eventually they learn control.

That is probably the best thing that's been said here in a long time.
People want quick fixes to their problems. They want perfection from the
start. 

In photography, that just isn't going to happen. Not with the sharpest,
most beautiful lenses in the world, and not with matrix metering with 3D
sensors and RGB color meters or a little "Who" from Horton's (Dr. Seuss)
book inside throwing levers and switches for you. Only a mind in control of
the process - that is one that knows what it's doing based on experience,
and lots of mistakes - will be successful.

But that's part of the fun. Learning for one's self.
==========

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

I exist as I am - that is enough.

- - Walt Whitman