Posted by Bob Stoddard on October 28, 2000 at 14:05:22:
In Reply to: Re: old timer tricks posted by BERT on October 27, 2000 at 22:22:08:In looking up "extinction meters" in my 8th edition of Morgan and Lester last night, I discovered not only a good description of the meters and a photo or two of one variety, but also that the basic extinction method was apparently suggested by the old photographer's trick of stopping the lens down until the image is extinguished on the ground glass. This sameness of principle is what I was referring to in my initial remark in response to Dennis Lee. In other words, using the Graflex this way makes the camera into a visual extinction meter! RKS