Guy,
Excellent !!! (en français dans le texte...)
Pourquoi faire simple quand on peut faire compliqué ?
Why do it simple when you can do it complicated ?
Sorry for everybody : I am not quite sure of this word- to- word translation
of this old french idiomatic sentence ! Maybe someone can give me the
english/american equivalent for it.
Let's go pinholing with or without maths, PDA, songs... but surely with our
open eyes, sensible heart, some light and plenty of childish pleasure !
Jean
- Original Message -
From: Guy Glorieux guy.glori...@sympatico.ca
To: Pinhole List pinhole-discussion@p at ???
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:17 AM
Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Reciprocity nightmare
I had a dream...
It was a dark, lonely night and I was out with my 8x10 PH camera. The
New Moon was further darkened by an incredibly rare simultaneous eclipse
of the sun and the moon. I could barely see my hands and feet as I
walked to the scene I was about to shoot for that winning picture for
the First International Nocturne Pinhole Exhibition. Ten times before
leaving I had checked that my film holders were fully loaded with film.
A single word kept swirling in my mind:r e c i p r o c i t y
I must not fail, I must not fail, I kept repeting to myself in the
darkness of the darkest forest.
Formulas kept poping up in my mind: 10% compound; one-over-the
square-root of the inverse of the sunny-16 times three times the speed
of my film; add twice the diameter of my pinhole divided by the focal
length of my camera to the exposure time estimated for the 3rd f-stop on
my right and multiply the cosinus by the coefficient of uncertainty...
I knew I could do it. How could I fail with all this simple mathematics
so well spelled out on The list.
Something tryied to grab me in the dark. I gave it a sharp blow and the
thing went blonk. Nothing could stop me from winning the top prize of
the Nocturne Pinhole Exhibition at Pinhole Vision.
Finally I reached the scene. It was a wonderful landscape I had spotted
two days ago after hours of walk in the country side. I set the camera
on the tripod. The temperature was a chilling 25 below freezing but I
was well covered for a long wait. With my flashlight, I carefully read
the spotmeter's reading and worked out the reciprocity factor on my
PDA. 258 hours, 64 minutes and 12 seconds... Hmmm... Add a couple
hours, just to make sure... It was just that simple!
I knew I could do it. But, rats, I suddenly realized that the final
deadline for submitting the print was tomorrow with an exposure time of
well over 10 days. I forgot to factor that into my equation... -:((
Guy Glorieux
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