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Originally Posted by tim_walls  And yet Saint Ansel devotes three pages of The Camera to meters, describing them as "critical to any photographer, and its characteristics and correct operation must be fully understood," and metering is of course pretty much all The Negative is about. |
Strange, isn't it .... the MOST significant, the most well respected photographers, seem to travel their own chosen paths. Maybe - possibly - there is NO one all-encompassing concrete, uncontestible truth.
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But it's just absurd posturing and makes you look rather ridiculous when you conflate "I don't need or wish to use this"
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A reasonable statement. ALL expressions of opinions are.
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.. with "noone has any need or wish to use this and noone would benefit from it."
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Not reasonable. I do not have - or WANT the ablility to decide on someone else's course of action.
Does the "conflatation" make sense? No, it does not.
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(I'm actually struggling to think of anything more critical to the successful practice of photography than metering, however you choose to do it, to be honest...)
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I think I might have found something ... you might consider,
"What to Photograph".