On 27/07/15 13:54, michael adams wrote:
"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 27/07/15 13:20, michael adams wrote:

And if as you claim, digital has wider dynamic range than film,*
then it seems that rather than them all producing rubbish, they
really were masters after all. Unlike todays gadget junkies.

in many cases that was the case.

I did many a good shot on slow film with a hand held exposure meter.

Right. So that's you along with the likes of George Rogers, Bert Hardy, Henry Cartier-
Bresson,
Bill Brandt, Lee Miller, Dorothea Lange, Eugene Atget, Lewis Hine, to name but a few
then.


Its one thing to take a correctly exposed and in focus picture, its
quite another to get the composition of an award winning picture.

I am not artistic, but I could handle the technology.


I'm glad that's all cleared up.

Except it isn't.


michael adams

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*btw IMO the claim that digital, even now has a wider dynamic range than film remains
sufficiently controversial to bore everyone to tears.




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