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Subject: [Leica] WAS: BESSA R3A or M7? NOW EXPOSURE.
From: mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura)
Date: Mon Jan 3 21:03:46 2005
References: <BCEKKGNGDPMOIPMEJONBAECMGPAA.phong@doan-ltd.com><00e001c4f1ab$e8536e60$30 8e5741@earthlink.net> <004501c4f1be$02a3dc70$87d86c18@ted>

>Goodness me, KISS and it works. ;-) I can never understand why it 
>requires such great detail for such a simple thing as a correct 
>exposure. Sorry but that's how I shoot and in general it works 
>beautifully..... just look at the books "Doctors' Work or Women in 
>Medicine!" ;-) Or any of the earlier ones. :-)

I agree. People are making this more complicated than it seems.

And I'm not against reflective metering at all, just it seems that 
pulling out an 18% grey card and having the model hold it, metering 
off that, then having her drop the card, and then taking the photo 
seems like a whole lot of trouble.

I'll either take a quick incident metering or reflective metering. 
After two decades of center-weighted metering, it's pretty automatic. 
I do exposure compensation with centerweighted by pointing the camera 
to a neutral area of the scene, ae lock, and recompose. It takes less 
than a second.

Karen

-- 
Karen Nakamura
http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/
http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/

In reply to: Message from phong at doan-ltd.com (Phong) ([Leica] BESSA R3A or M7)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] WAS: BESSA R3A or M7? NOW EXPOSURE.)