[rollei_list] Re: Meter Testing

  • From: Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:42:22 -0700 (PDT)

I guess that the labs work, and films and film cameras and enlargers and 
lightmeters and similars are manufactured for imaginary people, perhaps these 
things are made for ghosts and the analog photographic equipment sold in e*** 
are for ghosts too :-)
I could mention you a lot of LF and MF photographers using film yet, some of 
them at Flickr too, but it would be an useless effort.-

Carlos
   

--- El lun 24-ago-09, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:


> I haven't seen a non-digital camera
> here in Europe for years. The last  
> really good photographer I know who was still using film
> changed a  
> couple of years ago.
> I know people who still use 5x4 (4x5 in USA:-)) for
> landscape. One of  
> them even uses a fairly old digital camera as his light
> meter. He did  
> some experiments comparing the digital ands its exposure
> histogram to  
> film and subsequently used the digital pictures and the
> histogram of  
> them to evaluate his film exposure. He is a master
> photographer and I  
> thought this was very clever, it works well, and -much-
> more flexible  
> than a single cell light meter.
> He can also use the jpgs from the digital on his web site
> to advertise  
> the originals.
> Frank
> 
> On 23 Aug, 2009, at 17:05, Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote:
> 
> > I think digital photography has to do with the issue,
> external flash  
> > reads could be interesting even if you have a very
> complete digital  
> > camera, perhaps Europeans still use more analog
> equipments than  
> > Americans.
> >
> > Carlos
> >
> > --- El dom 23-ago-09, Elias Roustom <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> escribió:
> >
> >
> >> Digital F is easy to find, but the
> >> other seems unavailable. Maybe
> >> North Americans use flash more often than
> Europeans?
> >>
> >> On Aug 23, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Carlos Manuel Freaza
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> The Gossen "Sixtomat Digital" is called "Luna
> Pro
> >> Digital" in the
> >>> States and the version to take flash light
> reads too
> >> is called "Luna
> >>> Pro Digital F"
> >>> http://www.amazon.com/Gossen-GO4022-Luna-Pro-Digital-Light/dp/B0000AG939
> >>>
> >>> Carlos
> >>>
> >>> --- El dom 23-ago-09, Elias Roustom <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> escribió:
> >>>
> >>>> De: Elias Roustom <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Asunto: [rollei_list] Re: Meter Testing
> >>>> Para: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>> Fecha: domingo, 23 de agosto de 2009,
> 11:52 am
> >>>> Looks like a great meter - not
> >>>> available from any of the on-line
> merchants where
> >> I would
> >>>> expect to find it (in the U.S.).
> >>>>
> >>>> On Aug 23, 2009, at 5:00 AM, Niels H. S.
> Nielsen
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 3:15 AM,
> >>>> Elias Roustom <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>> <snip> The question with new
> >>>> is whether I would miss the needle, it's
> great to
> >> wave
> >>>> meter up and down and see how far the
> needle moves
> >> between
> >>>> highlight and shadow. <snip>
> >>>>    The Gossen Sixtomat digitial
> is
> >> an
> >>>> compact inexpensive option with the
> ability to
> >> make a
> >>>> continous reading and show the aperture
> range of
> >> a
> >>>> subject. I think the meter has another
> name in
> >> the
> >>>> US.  
> >>>> http://www.gossen-photo.de/english/foto_produkte.html?foto_sixtodigi..html,picts/navi_foto_sub_01_sixtodigi.gif
> >>>>    cheers
> >>>> Niels
> >>>>
> >>>
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