Re: Reciprocity nightmare

Guy,
Excellent !!! (en français dans le texte...)
"Pourquoi faire simple quand on peut faire compliqué ?"

"Why do it simple when you can do it complicated ?"
Sorry for everybody : I am not quite sure of this word- to- word translation
of this old french idiomatic sentence ! Maybe someone can give me the
english/american equivalent for it.
Let's go pinholing with or without maths, PDA, songs... but surely with our
open eyes, sensible heart, some light and plenty of childish pleasure !
Jean

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Glorieux" <guy.glorieux@sympatico.ca>
To: "Pinhole List" <pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:17 AM
Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Reciprocity nightmare

> I had a dream...
>
> It was a dark, lonely night and I was out with my 8x10 PH camera. The
> New Moon was further darkened by an incredibly rare simultaneous eclipse
> of the sun and the moon. I could barely see my hands and feet as I
> walked to the scene I was about to shoot for that winning picture for
> the First International Nocturne Pinhole Exhibition. Ten times before
> leaving I had checked that my film holders were fully loaded with film.
>
> A single word kept swirling in my mind: r e c i p r o c i t y
>
> I must not fail, I must not fail, I kept repeting to myself in the
> darkness of the darkest forest.
>
> Formulas kept poping up in my mind: 10% compound; one-over-the
> square-root of the inverse of the sunny-16 times three times the speed
> of my film; add twice the diameter of my pinhole divided by the focal
> length of my camera to the exposure time estimated for the 3rd f-stop on
> my right and multiply the cosinus by the coefficient of uncertainty...
> I knew I could do it. How could I fail with all this simple mathematics
> so well spelled out on The list.
>
> Something tryied to grab me in the dark. I gave it a sharp blow and the
> thing went blonk. Nothing could stop me from winning the top prize of
> the Nocturne Pinhole Exhibition at Pinhole Vision.
>
> Finally I reached the scene. It was a wonderful landscape I had spotted
> two days ago after hours of walk in the country side. I set the camera
> on the tripod. The temperature was a chilling 25 below freezing but I
> was well covered for a long wait. With my flashlight, I carefully read
> the spotmeter's reading and worked out the reciprocity factor on my
> PDA. 258 hours, 64 minutes and 12 seconds... Hmmm... Add a couple
> hours, just to make sure... It was just that simple!
>
> I knew I could do it. But, rats, I suddenly realized that the final
> deadline for submitting the print was tomorrow with an exposure time of
> well over 10 days. I forgot to factor that into my equation... -:((
>
> Guy Glorieux
>
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Received on Thu Jan 11 04:18:39 2001