On Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 14:18, Tris Schuler
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wrote re "Re: [OM] The Great Bokeh Debate [was] olympus-dig" saying:
> You know, I read a piece by you a couple weeks ago, John, where you
> described your father simply "eyeballing" a scene for exposure and it
> really hit home. My dad wasn't into photography, hunting was his thing, and
> to cut a long story short I never could develop his dead eye or passion for
> stalking animals
If you constantly guess the exposure & then check the light meter, you'll
end up within a stop. I did. At Ryerson, I surprised (& annoyed) my photo
teacher by estimating the exposure within a 1/2 stop.
...
> >>Other things being equal, superior equipment must count. But first the
> >>photographer needs to get that far through other means.
> >
> >Equipment provides capabilities, flexibility and alternatives. You're dead
> >on: the photographer must know how to exploit these to achieve what is
> >"visualized." Some day I hope to be as good as my father was; he shot
> >Kodachrome using an Argus C3 "brick." I look back through the archive of
> >his Kodachromes with amazement at what he was able to do with it.
That C3 was reliable and sturdy, and had better focus accuracy than any OM
with a 50mm or less lens. And that Kodachrome was sharper than the 400's
available now. On 950f pictures, it's just as capable. On the other 5%,
an SLR or a sharper/wider/longer lens would help.
It's the equipment between the ears which counts.
tOM
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