Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Martin Wesley" 
<mwesley250@e...> wrote:
So this seems like a good deal.
> Quite a bit of X-Rite equipment on eBay at similar cost 
reductions if you
> are interested.


I remember going down that path years ago, when getting 
obsessed with those Ansel Adams and Fred Picker books. I 
bought my densitometer and starting doing overly-picky tests 
measuring base fog, etc, and determining my working ASA, etc. 

I tested and tested, then I'd get in a real job, shooting a real 
photograph, and the conditions would just never be right. I'd get 
all flustered, and just say Screw It, and just take a meter reading 
like I always did. 

Part of me wants to caution you about getting to hung up about 
all this tech stuff. Once you go down that road, something 
changes, or at least it did for me. But then again, I then 
remember that old Ansel Adams quote, (what was it?). 
Something like "Luck favors the prepared mind", and then I say, 
OK go ahead and buy your densitometer. Just don't get too hung 
up about it. I picture Winogrand or RobertFrank doing that, and I 
just laugh. Especially Winogrand.

Sorry for the ramble. All hopped up on Frappachino Mocha this 
afternoon...

MT, http://marktucker.com/