Re: Sputnik Heresy

[Greg Erker <erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I have to admit a few sins:
>
>    I shoot almost exclusively handheld with my Sputnik.
>
>    I only use the sports finder (and never the reflex finder).
>
>    I use a light meter for only around 10% of my shots.
>
>Maybe my viewer is so poor I don't see how horrible my images really are,
>but to my eyes they are usually acceptable and sometimes even good :-}.
>FWIW my viewer has AS+S lenses.
>
>-Stephen

  The AS&S lenses are good, unless your viewer
has them too far away and thus out of focus :)

  I was just looking at your loop 6A slides
on my past two lunch hours and was impressed
with how sharp your handheld shots are.
You obviously are very steady and perhaps the
eye level grip gives more steadiness than the
waist level grip when tripping the shutter.

  I used to shoot most of my Realist shots
without meter. It works pretty well under
the sunny 16 conditions.

  And often a shot will look just fine unless
you have a 1/2 stop darker one to compare it
to. Given the cost of shooting MF stereo I
don't normally braket either.

Greg