The Book is Here

Finding Middle Gray (and then some) is finally finished and ready as an eBook PDF and a beautiful 67 page soft cover print book. The price is $24.98 (eBook) and $35 (print).

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Most budding photographers, and even some professionals, do not understand the premise of how their new camera (or old camera) decides on a certain exposure setting for a scene. It’s called Middle Gray, and this book will help any enthusiast or student of photography, once and for all, understand how to get great exposures from any camera, digital or film. It will free you from your auto-only method of photography. It’s easy and it’s fun. If you want to understand the most fundamental function of your camera and meter, this is a must read.

People ask me everyday how I get such great exposures with details in the shadows and highlights. I answer these questions in very simple terms inside this easy to read book. My methods are simple and I use them to this day with digital and film. Middle Gray is the starting point and the rest becomes easier as you understand it.

You have paid hundreds if not thousands for your equipment. $24.98 is well less than one hour of schooling. Give yourself the knowledge that you need to finally take control of your camera.

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Olympus EP-2 and EP-1 Pen and Voigtlander VM Adapter Tutorial

The NEW more complete Voigtlander VM Adapter and Olympus EP-2 and EP-1 Tutorial

NOTE: This tutorial shows the EP-1 but is also for EP-2 users!

This new PDF tutorial covers more than the first tutorial and has helpful photographs to visually show you everything you need to know to use this adapter with your M lenses and EP-1 and EP-2. No more frustrating searches online for half answers. Everything you need to know is in this 20 page eBook. Now only $4.95.

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What The Tutorial Covers:

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• Mounting the Voigtlander VM Micro Four Thirds Adapter on your Leica M mount lenses and Olympus EP-1 and 2 Pen cameras.

• Information on focus settings

• Various screen displays you should use and when you should use them. General Display, Live Histogram Display, Zoom Display

• General focusing

• CRITICAL FOCUSING
Most people ask about Critical Focusing. Can it be done with my M lenses and the VM adapter on the EP-1 and EP-2? Answer: YES! And I show you how in this tutorial.

• Manual metering

• Aperture priority metering

• What to expect from your M lenses.
I use the 28mm, 35mm and 50mm Summicron lenses and give a short discussion on the various results.

• And More … all for the price of two cups of coffee.

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I recommend the Voigtlander VM adapter. Here’s where I got mine:
Click Here: http://cameraquest.com/adp_micro_43.htm. Give Steve Gandy at CameraQuest an email or call and he’ll get one of these adapters out to you ASAP in good order!

Enjoy your M lenses and with your Olympus EP-1 or EP-2 and the VM Adapter

Written by John Strazza
Street photographer
www.johnstrazza.com

Want to get the most from your camera? Read This

Note to EP-2 users: This tutorial should also apply to the Olympus EP-2 and the VM Adapter. If you have used this adapter on the EP-2 let me know the results so I can assure other EP-2 users.

and then some = The Histogram

Some wonder what I mean when I say “and then some” in the title of this website. The short explanation is that digital cameras have new technologies that help the metering process and in some ways bypass the middle gray metering techniques. The concept of middle gray is not abandoned though, far from it. But, Live View with Histograms, for instance, give the photographer a valuable tool that leans on different concepts of exposure. Exposing “to the right” of the histogram for instance helps create a “healthy file” with good bit rate information, but may actually be a very different exposure reading than an incident light meter reading for middle gray might have given. If this does not sound clear for now, please don’t worry, the explanation is actually quite simple and I explain it fully in words and pictures in my new book titled “Finding Middle Gray (and then some)“.


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Anyway, to answer the question about what I mean when I say “and then some” .. it refers to the newer digital tools that we can now use to get great exposures for excellent results along with our understanding of how to find Middle Gray! Together they make a powerful toolkit for working with light and exposure.

This image below was taken with a new Olympus EP-1 and a 17mm lens using some newer techniques including Live View and live histograms.  The image was converted to black and white and processed for this particular portfolio and vignetted for a more dramatic result.

Black Dirt Florida NY, By John Strazza