>In a message dated 2/14/2004 8:23:12 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Believe what you like, but the majority of the "photographers" that I know wouldn't know how to set an exposure without some sort of automation is their life depended on it. >If you give a man a fish, you will feed him for a day. The automatic camera is the fish that you can filet daily. >William Robb I am actually finding my fully automated Canon harder to use than my previously manually oriented (but fully automated) ZX-5n. All the buttons, all the options!!! Confusing. So I usually put it into manual. Which is a bit tougher to do on the Elan, too, but I it anyway. That way, at least I know, sort of, what is going on. So, IMHO (in my humble opinion), it's better to learn on a totally manual camera (which for me was the K-1000). I can't imagine learning on one of these automated marvels (while not in manual mode), how would one learn anything? Well, one could learn composition, but not much more. Okay, one could learn the ways different types of film react to different situations. And to remember to take the lens cap off, and maybe a few other things... Marnie aka Doe :-) Actually, forget it, I am not really that humble.
