You're probably talking about Tom Scales.
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/20/2011 3:00 PM, Peter Leyssens wrote:
>
> Ken,
>
> thanks for your kind words. I get a few reactions and immediately, I
> recognise names and people, I get timewarped to days when (what's his name
> again) was bragging about his bulk purchases on eBay or his incredible deals
> on really expensive gears. It's been quite a while since I left, but boy,
> does it bring back memories.
>
>
>> Peter, I'm not in a position, right now, to fund the transfer of goods to my
>> bag, so I wish you the best possible deal. Just a note, though. I use my
>> Zuikos with adaptors on 4/3 cameras. The imagery from the combination is so
>> good that I've almost completely abandoned newer optics.
>
> Darn, maybe I should try out that 50/1.4 on my E-P1 anyway. I already got one
> private message inquiring into pricing, so it might be too late. Of course
> I'll regret selling the gear. But I also regret having it just laying there
> gathering dust.
>
>
>> I know that my awareness of light
>> is so much greater when using a manual-exposure camera. When the awareness
>> of light is greater, the thought process regarding what to do with the light
>> is greater.
>
> Exactly. My process used a few tools that just don't exist anymore. First,
> I'd take a couple of high key spots, noting mentally which ones were brighter
> and could be afforded to clip. Same for low keys. Then, I'd focus on the
> closest object that I wanted in focus, noting the distance. Same for the
> object furthest away. That gave me the aperture, and with the exposure info
> from the spot metering, I had the shutter speed.
>
> Now *that* was awareness of the light in a scene !
>
>
>> The OM body with the 50/1.4 is a wonderful combination. I kinda prefer the
>> 35mm focal length for my "normal", but the lens is able to produce such
>> dimensionality to the image and is bright enough to provide good
>> focusability.
>
> Particularly with the 2-13 screen that I have ! That purchase was worth
> *MUCH* more than its weight in gold :)
>
>
>> Granted, I use the OM-3Ti, which has a few differences from the OM-3, but
>> both are almost identical in function and design. The ability to adapt to
>> the Zone System for exposure control is unlike ANYTHING else out there. The
>> camera is unique, special and nothing like it will ever be created again.
>>
>> BTW, feel free to continue to hang around here. We're just a friendly
>> campfire where we discuss many things, but with the common anchor of having
>> or enjoying Olympus gear.
>
> Yeah, there we go. I remember. I join the Olympus Mailing List owning an OM-1
> with a 50/f1.8 or something like that, and a few years later I have an OM-3,
> OM-4Ti, 28/f2.8, 50/f1.4, 50/f1.8 or 2 extra, 75-150, 90/f2, 200/f4, a
> pinhole body cap I made myself, and then some. And here you are doing it
> again, convincing me to keep the whole shebang because it's so gorgeous !
>
> You lot haven't changed a bit :)
>
>
> Peter.
>
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