Toss your meters, fools!

In article , joe mama
took the time to educate us with:

Dateline, 7-6-06

Meters are useless

Yes, Joe, they truly are.

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.

You are right.

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

I'm sorry you're sick, Joe.


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.

Yup, there is no match. It's matchless, even.


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!

No one's gonna fool you, that's for sure.


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

It hasn't failed you. We are glad to know that.

I don't know why you have wasted images frittering with meters, Joe.


g'night,
dm

Goodnight, Joe.

Thank you for a truly wonderful post.

Speaking for all photographers -- the fools, the hacks and the
lazy, we appreciate your post. It has added enormous value to
our lives.


Goss.



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