i was shooting slides almost exclusively when i when i got my first
autofocus body, roughly 80% Provia 100F, 10% Velvia, and print film the
remaining 10%. it stayed in AE and AF modes most of the time except when
doing macros. i figure i have thrown away perhaps 20 frames because they
were over or underexposed to my taste by more than a stop. some more have
blown highlights because of too great a dynamic range, but not a lot more. a
very large percentage of the time, i wasn't using exposure compensation.
manual exposure superiority over automatic is vastly overrated.
Herb....
----- Original Message -----
From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: Skills - was Re: Sent My Brother to the Dark Side
the fellow who runs the lab at which i get all my b&w stuff processed
tells me that he can tell by looking at exposed film who exposes
manually and who sets their body on auto. those who expose manually
have much more consistent exposures. those that rely on their cameras
have exposures all over the place.
