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Message: <blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 121662" data-attributes="member: 12827">Looking forward to seeing them! Folks today have so much more information available at their fingertips than we did back in the 70's and 80's so your learning curves will be considerably shorter than they were for us. Thank God for the articles in Modern and Popular and Peterson's Photography magazines! Plus, before digital you had to process and print your stuff before you realized how badly you had hosed it up. And by then you could not remember what you did! I remember waaaay back in the mid 70's, before I could afford a flash meter, which were primative back then compared to today, I had to figure out empirically what the guide number was for my flash when bounced into a Reflectasol umbrella. That meant taking numerous photos at 1/2 stop intervals and looking at a proof sheet, printed to "maximum black" and figuring out which one looked that best. Once I had done that, I had to go back through the calciulations to figure out what the actual guide number was so when I took photos in the future, I knew how far from the subject the light needed to be. That was worth HOURS of work and I was learning as I went. With digital you now get essentially instantaneous feedback.  Nowadays, with a sophisticated flash meter like my Sekonic L-358, that information is available at the click of a button. What would have taken me an hour or more to set up with 4 lights. I can do in 10 minutes or less.</blockquote>

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