On Dec 23, 2004, at 6:35 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think that last clause - no built-in meter - will be the biggest hurdle.
Even my very first 35mm camera (a fairly cheap badge-engineered 'Hanimex')
had a built-in meter, as did my first SLR (A Spotmatic II). Not coupled
to the exposure system, admittedly, but still built in to the cameras.
I would have to say that I also never shot a fully manual camera. My SRT 100 had a meter also. However, I must confess that I often took it out in the woods in the winter, and the poor batteries couldn't handle the cold, plus with the snow, it would underexpose, so I generally shot it without metering. :-) I also was good at standing in a crowd of people (shot for our school's newspaper and year book) and would focus, and set exposure with the camera at my waist, and then raise and shoot before the poor subjects had a chance to respond! I got a lot of photos other school photogs couldn't get, because they would stand there with their camera to their face, trying to focus and set exposure through the VF. Once the other students were "on to them" they would either clam up, or act even stupider (sic). :-) I got a lot of candid shots this way. So, I don't qualify technically, but I do in spirit. ;-)
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-Jon Glass
Krakow, Poland
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