Re: PHOTO-3D digest 1364

[P3D Neil Harrington <nharrington@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gregory J. Wageman writes:

>>I, on the other hand, started shooting Kodachrome when I got separated from
>>the service in 1953, and I bought a second-hand DeJur light meter to ensure
>>that I got perfect exposures.  I followed that meter religiously.  And it
>>was WRONG, gave me a lot of overexposed slides, which unfortunately I had no
>>way of knowing until I got home and had the chromes processed.
>>Irreplaceable shots, needless to say.  I'd have been a lot better off if I'd
>>just read the packaged directions as my sister did years later.
>
>Was it the meter that was wrong, or the camera, or both?

Well, that's a good question that never occurred to me for some reason.  The
camera was a Kodak Retina IIa.  I'd used it extensively for B&W with
excellent results, but of course the much more forgiving latitude of B&W
makes that rather meaningless.  So I really don't know for sure.

>It's good practice to shoot a test roll or two with *any* new equipment
>before using it to take irreplacable photographs.  

You bet.  NOW I know that.     :-)     I was fairly new to photography at
that time.



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