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Subject: [OM] ( OM ) Low-light photography and digital
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:06:10 +1200
Hi all,

I just remembered.

A week or so back I visited the great new $50 million art gallery that opened 
recently in Christchurch, and went into the Very Expensive international 
showing of old Masters that had been borrowed from Melbourne and Dunedin 
(admission was free - it is the paintings that are nearly priceless). 

The exhibition was apparently of seminal paintings that influenced painters 
by showing how light could be used.  Maybe it is old hat to me; I wasn't 
impressed at all by the paintings, but I could see the message of one or two 
in respect of light.

HOWEVER.

There was a very important-looking chap there with a tripod and a C*n*n 
digital, carefully copying some of the canvasses.

No  flash.  Low light. Even light.

And I realised then that it probably didn't matter at all how long the 
exposures took, since there would be no reciprocity failure / shift to 
compensate for. So it was all very low-key and matter-of-fact photography for 
him. Just quietly frame, focus and get on with it.

Brian

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