On Aug 5, 2005, at 11:18 AM, keithw wrote:
Know what, Godfrey?
If I had to think of and consider all that [expletive deleted]
before I took a photo, I'd end up just sitting around playing with
my - camera all day long!
I don't think of "all that" every time I take a photo. I know how the
sensor responds as a matter of course now, know how the processing
works, and just set my exposure appropriately.
All proper exposure evaluation requires
- an understanding of the light sensitive material you're working with
- an understanding of how to process that material to render the image
- an understanding of what a meter sees and how it returns a reading
- being able to interpret the meter reading per the scene you're
looking at
for the recording medium.
Whether you realize it or not, that's exactly what you're doing with
film and it's exactly what I'm doing with a digital camera. The
medium has different characteristics and the processing operates
differently, but the end result is the same.
The nice thing about a digital camera is that I can easily make a
test exposure and review it on the spot with the crude histogram to
determine if I'm in the right ballpark, and then i can bracket around
it as much as I want to without spending any additional money on the
exposures.
Godfrey
