Don,
The problem though is that if he took the photograph 10 minutes later or earlier the exposure would have been different. In addition we're not seeing the PP work that went into producing the image, the time the plate spent in the developer, the type of developer, or the dodging and masking involved in the printing. In addition to exposure being situational and transitory, we have no idea where he took the reading from, nor whether he overrode what the meter told him.
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