[LargeFormat] Palm software for large format photography

[lnphoto]

> From: Robert Mayrand <dnaryam@videotron.ca>
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 11:32:19 -0500
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Palm software for large format photography
> 
> Hi Les,
> 
> Hi guess that when i'll get more experienced I'll be more intuitive, but for
> now I sure appreciate the help fo this little device!  ;-)


when learninig or testing a new film/lens/ the zone system there's no
question copious notes are needed because it's the information learned after
processing (both the film and the data) that's more important than
composition.  One of my professors told me that "research" takes place after
you've searched-- brought back the data from the photo shoot or in his case
the library--and then try to make sense of it. If a PDA will allow you to do
that better than a pad and pencil then I'm all in favor of it!
> 
> As ironic as it may sound, Maybe that's what my logbook will allow me to
> achieve after all!! Trusting my intuition by experience!

I truly believe this should be your goal-- to be able to look at a scene and
know what it will look like on a print. Trial and error, experimentation are
the only way there.
> 
> I just suggested this because I stumble on it by chance, and thought that it
> might be usefull for me! And since I'm quite a normal guy it think there are
> chance that it might be usefull to someone else!!

I'm very glad you did, I'm a gadget nut by genetic disposition (aren't' all
men??-- new project, new power tool) and I'm just getting to the age where I
have enough experience to say, "No, I don't need that" Which is quite
suprising to me!

Now I'm going to take some of my own advice and get off this ruddy
time-wasting computer and go shoot!!!!!
> 
> Robert 
> Mtl, Quebec
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/8/02 11:21 AM, "lnphoto" <lnphoto@twmi.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>> There are two ends of this spectrum. Phil Davis and the BTZS where every
>> movement is recorded and it takes a half hour to shoot something is at one
>> end. Ansel and the Zone System is somewhere close by,  In the middle is the
>> huddles masses that shoot what the meter says and not think twice. At the
>> far other end is the Weston system. "Expose the film until you think the
>> subject is going to move",  was at least one of his rules of exposure,
>> although he was refering to portraits rather than landscapes at the time.
>> 
>> When I go out to shoot "spiritual Photography"  That is photography that
>> satifies my spirit rather than photographing fairies, the most complicated
>> piece of equipment I take is a lenscap or a country shutter.  Occasionally
>> packard shutter will show up in my bag but I prefer the country. the meter
>> is in my head. I figure by now if I can't read the light for B&W I should be
>> come an accountant.
>> 
>> Now I will admit when I'm "working for a living" there's no question that I
>> will fall to the crutch of a light meter and even an accurate shutter. But
>> time is money here and I couldn't have shot 3500 photographs in a little
>> over three months by divining the exposure (well I did a couple of days when
>> the battery failed on the meter) and lettting The Force guide me. infact I
>> had to shoot that medium format because of several factors, cost of film,
>> subject matter, time frame etc. Perhaps a palm pilot might have worked here
>> as a log. I don't know what trouble I could have gotten into tapping icons
>> on a palm in a bouncing truck (oh no I just hit delete!) but will admit some
>> of my writing took divine inspiration to decypher.
>> 
>> Les
>> 
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