Toss your meters, fools!

On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:37:05 -0400, Tim
wrote:

In article ,
"joe mama" wrote:

Dateline, 7-6-06

Meters are useless

any photographer that shoots more than one roll of film a month (natural
light, not flash), or thirty digital "images" and still requires a meter to
gauge exposure values is not only a hack, but lazy.

i am sick of seeing article upon article...book upon book, based on the
simplest of rules.

for all of the modern conventions attributed to photography, and all of the
gadgets that can make images easier than ever, there is still no match for
knowing one's equipment, being adept at seeing full frame (whatever that
frame size is), knowing the light quality and being able to transcend that
vision to medium.

forget zones, compensation ev's, et al, just look at a perceived image, and
MAKE it. sunny 16 has worked since the dawn of photography. no new-fangled
means of trapping light have ever fooled it. in fact, it can't be fooled. it
is almost as constant as the light we surreptitiously chase!

it has never failed me, and i won't begin to tell you how many images have
been wasted by frittering with meters!

g'night,
dm

Take a look at the number of newsgroups this was posted to ...

It's a troll post.


July 8, 2006, from Lloyd Erlick,

If someone posts something a bit contentious
in the subject area of photography, is that
in itself trolling? I agree cross-posting
extensively is poor practice, but still, is
that enough to label it trolling?

The OP in this case continued to take part in
the discussion (which he/she had drummed up
in the usual group-oriented way, saying
something that called forth responses,
perhaps even indignant ones).

Most significantly, there was no descent into
name-calling or any of the various, usual,
personal insults.

It would be little different if the OP had
initiated a thread by making radical
statements about the crucial role played by
the wooden tripod. All you guys using
aluminum tripods are doing it wrong! Trying
to mobilize responders to get off their butts
long enough to keyboard a moment isn't really
trolling, at least not in a world that
includes some of the trolls we've seen around
here...

regards,
--le
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