On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:08:00PM +0800, Rick Beckrich wrote:
> John Lind wrote: I can hold a Kodachrome...and wonder at how well my father
> was able to estimate exposures and compose his photographs over 50 years ago.
>
> Dunno about your dad, John, but 50 years ago I was using both Wesson and
> Gossen meters for exposure 'estimation', and composing on a 6X6 Rolleiflex
> TLR screen or a 4X5 Graphic, and snap shooting with a Leica IIIF... those
> weren't exactly the stone ages.
Yes, it is fun to read all those Andreas Feiniger books from the 50/60 until
the 90`s
all kept in a good libary. One of his basic sentence never changed:
"The new camera generation makes it so simple to get technically correct and
well
exposed pictures by simply follow the instruction manuals. So his book is rather
focused to control the content of image, to help getting a interesting image"
Sure, the equipent he refers to changed over this time span. It is nice to see,
what
changed, and what stayed simply the same. :-))
Frieder Faig
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