From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!smith
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Title: Re: fully manual - (nf)
Article-I.D.: umn-cs.197
Posted: Tue Feb 22 23:55:20 1983
Received: Fri Feb 25 08:57:08 1983

#R:sytek:-27600:umn-cs:9000005:000:690
umn-cs!smith    Feb 22 15:59:00 1983

  Maybe I just have too much distrust of automation (too much experience
programming, perhaps) but I feel far more comfortable with my FM2 than
I feel borrowing friends' automatics.  Maybe I just have this fetish for
weird lighting, but I've found that typical camera meters too often average
the wrong things when left on their own.  I've done best when I measure
the light, set the camera, and then take pictures till the lighting
situation changes.  This is especially true in backlit situations where
the automatic camera will happily underexpose your picture.

  Sorry, but I really doubt that automatic equipment will screw up when
printing a PROPERLY EXPOSED backlit picture.

Rick.