If you read american photo magazines, british photo magazines, and french photo magazines from the eighties and seventies, the diferences of tone in the articles (technical or otherwise) was remarquable.
Zoom, had a very knowlageble technical writer, that put tons of humor in all is writings, never being inacurate. His name was Chenz.
On 20/07/07,
MichaelHughes7A@xxxxxxx <MichaelHughes7A@xxxxxxx> wrote:
In a message dated 19/07/2007 12:37:15 GMT Standard Time, retorta@xxxxxxxxx writes:american photographers always meter the light before taking a picture, french photographers afterwards"Assuming that this statement in the magazine was true what would be the point of the French photographers action. If it was simply as a check so that they could try the shot again if they felt tthat they had made a bad choice initially then there is little difference between the two actions - apart from allowing the French to get lucky once in a while with a fleeting subject. On the other hand if they recorded the details in a notebook which was later used in the dark-room to help to optimise the D & P process that would be a somewhat different matter.The quote conjures up pictures of photographers using light meters to measure incident light. Has modern through the lens light metering with a meter built into a camera made incident light metering obsolete or maybe reduced its use to a few specialised application?Michael.
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