HAR!
Regards,
Bob...
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"Art is not a reflection of reality. it is the reality of a reflection."
-Jean Luc Godard
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From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Too bad Pentax just didn't let their cameras evolve instead of forcing the
> issue. :-))
>
> Tom C.
>
>>From: "Bob Blakely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>Howdy!
>>
>>Regarding number 2: What you "see" in the view finder (or without a
>>camera
>>for that matter) is NOT what's there. When you look at a real world
>>object,
>>you are perceiving it through what is possibly the most sophisticated
>>visual
>>processing system ever produced on this earth! Not only will the iris
>>change
>>with the lighting conditions, it will change to adapt to the subject or
>>even
>>specific areas of a subject that you are interested in - and without the
>>mistakes that cameras make trying to guess what you are interested in.
>>Further, your brain processes the image to include filling in details that
>>you can't see in such a manner that you can't know that it's doing it. For
>>example, you have a blind spot in your eye where the optic bundle
>>converges
>>and turns inward to become the optic nerve - yet you are NEVER aware of
>>this
>>hole in your visual sensor (eye)! You have to trick your perception system
>>to demonstrate the existence of this hole in your visual loss! If that's
>>not
>>enough, your brain can, to some extent, adjust the apparent sensitivity of
>>your retina, and it can do it variably to the specific areas of interest
>>to
>>you! This does not happen with film. What's there is what you get. For
>>these
>>shots, you need to use fill flash. Doing this well is not a trivial mount
>>the flash an shoot job. One needs to know how to balance the light from
>>the
>>flash with the ambient light.
>>[Skipped]
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Glen Tortorella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>
>> > [Skipped]
>> >
>> > 2) On the outdoor "high sun" shots, the camera turned a seemingly
>> > minor shadows (through the viewfinder) on the subject's face into a
>> > black blobs that covered almost all of the subject's face.
>> > 3) When taking indoor shots with the flash, I would meter (10-
>> > segment) something like 1/30 or 1/45 or perhaps 1/60 at, say, f2.
>> > With the flash powered up, I do not think it ever metered
>> > differently. For example, 1/30 at f/2 was still 1/30 at f/2 with the
>> > flash enabled. Is this correct, or is there something wrong with my
>> > camera?
>> > 4) The one decent shot in the whole role--an indoor shot using only
>> > available light...go figure?--was spoiled by some sort of small speck
>> > on the subject's face. I usually keep my filter free of dust, etc.
>> > Could this speck have appeared as a result of the cheap processing I
>> > used (Wal-Mart C-41)?
>> >
>> > [Skipped]
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