ken Archer wrote:
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Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 2:28 AM
Subject: Re: What's good technique?
Using a H1 when I first started was the best training I ever
> had. I didn't have time to use a meter on many jobs, so estimating the
exposure
> become second nature and my negs where pretty uniform. If I had any
doubts, I
> developed by inspection.
FWIW I started with a couple of simple 35mm cameras in the late 50's when
such things as TTL metering were AFAIK not even thought of for ordinary
folks. After that there were the manual Prakticas and my S1a (which I still
have and use). I used handheld meters at first, Weston, Metrawatt,
Sekonic but eventually got wise to the Sunny-16 rule and variants thereof
which worked for 90 percent of my subjects.
In recent years I felt I needed a TTL camera so I bought a Nikon FM and an
FM2n but I found them very slow and irritating to use. Oddly enough I also
bought a Nikkormat FTn and a Spotmatic which I preferred because in the
daytime the needle is easier to see than diode readout. But really, the F3
and the Program-A are to me just perfect. I have become so used to working
out the exposure and the settings in general before I take a shot that to
fiddle matching needles and diodes is just too much bother. In any event,
if you are going to use the camera system anyhow then you might as well
settle for Program mode. OK I know it is not always called for but
certainly in most cases it does deliver the goods.
Conrad Samuels
Kirstenhof SA
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