Doug Brewer wrote:
>
> Oh good. I was worried that without Shel
> we wouldn't have anyone around to tell us
> what Real Photographers use for Photography.
A Real Photographer only uses manual equipment, has minimal
use for built-in light meters, shoots B&W negative film, has
no use for cameras that require the use of functions or an
encyclopedic "user's" manual, and has no need to understand
such acronyms as FPS, Tv, Av, Hp, LCD, and other such
silliness.
A Real Photographer has no need for digital anything, auto
rewind, data imprinting, any sort of auto focus, and doesn't
wait around for a "flagship" camera. He eschews zoom lenses,
camera gear made of plastic, anything rated as "consumer",
matrix metering, or 35mm cameras larger than an LX.
A Real Photographer has never used a camera that must be
"programmed" to be used, or one which relies extensively on
batteries or small internal combustion engines in order to
operate. He uses a camera with a real pentaprism rather than
a silly "hall of mirrors" viewfinder, and prefers lenses with
DOF scales on them.
A Real Photographer knows how to process his own film, make
enlargements, use his camera without looking at its dials,
knobs, or levers, and would never be caught with a camera that
has pictures of a happy face on a glowing dial.
A Real Photographer understands film speed, doesn't need DX
encoding, and knows how to use a variety of light meters other
than the one that's built into his camera.
There ya go Doug ... I just had to put everything in proper
perspective <vbg>
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Sheldon Belinkoff
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