From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!zehntel!sytek!blk
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Title: fully manual
Article-I.D.: sytek.276
Posted: Mon Jan 24 10:14:27 1983
Received: Thu Jan 27 19:58:41 1983

It is nice to see people with strong feelings about the art of manual photos,
*BUT*  ...  if a photographer plans to shoot in color, and have a lab develop
and print, full manual is of *minimal* value!  The color processing equipment
is highly automated and becoming more so.  Just as the auto camera averages
the scene to one level of 'gray', the auto printers *and* the newer 
developing machines average to the same overal brightness.  The result is
that if you meter against the figures face (for perfect exposure of the
skin tones) the developer and printer will screw up the picture.  Getting a
lab to do it 'right' is an expensive hassle.

Personally, i like B+W in a private darkroom; but i don't think most cameras
are used this way!
		-brian