Eduardo wrote:
> Something on your explanations is puzzling me: Most minilabs have a machine
> that has a built in software that sets automatic compensation figures for
> each kind of print film, right? the minute you start working with the
> negatives, it will select those default values indicated by the software,
> regardless of how precise or not the photographer was when pressing the
> shutter?
> If that's the case, what's the point of all that discussion about
> learning to precise "read" light with the zone system or even a spotmeter?
> You won't get what you read, anyway... ;-) Or am I just getting more
> confused?
Well, it comes down to this:
You have to get sufficient/proper exposure as you are shooting the
photo so there is *something on the film* that the machine printer
can butcher up and/or perform arcane mystical abominations upon
during the printing process.
;^)
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Bill D. Casselberry ; Photography on the Oregon Coast
http://www.orednet.org/~bcasselb
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