Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In the sixties, when I was covering the marches, I wished my Spectra
incident meter would have had a brown hemisphere instead of white.
from my iPad
Sonny Carter
> On Feb 22, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> I did notice it was the lead story in the business section, as opposed to
> art and leisure. And then if you go to the photography section in the
> magazine ("A True Picture of Black Skin"), you will learn that "cameras
> and the mechanical tools of photography have rarely made it easy to
> photograph black skin". But, one can work around these unfriendly tools,
> such as adjusting a light meter for black skin. Another revelation was
> that film emulsions were calibrated for white skin, and thus don't work
> will with black, brown or red skin.
>
> Ken
>
>> On 2/21/2015 9:22 PM, Matt Kollasch wrote:
>> Peter Lik
>> ? is, as my father used to say, "laughing all the way to the bank." In my
>> mind if you are IN Caesars Palace you ARE the joke.? But what do I know, I
>> am no Peter Lik, a man rich in confidence. Never heard of him till this
>> article, though.
>>
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/business/peter-liks-recipe-for-success-sell-prints-print-money.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news#
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