That's not _my_ claim, Shel. Somebody else claimed that many of the "photographers" of his accquaintance were incapable of operating their cameras in anything other than automatic mode.
I don't think manual cameras are hard - I learned on a brownie and an Agfa fold-out, and thought the match-needle metering of my Spotmatic was a great step forward. I still use my MXs, and often switch my all-automatic cameras into manual mode (yes, even the *ist-D) when I want full control. > John, > > Why do you so often insist that learning to use a manual > camera is "the hard way?" > > What can be simpler to operate than a camera ... perhaps a > toaster? Nah, they're getting pretty complicated these days > as well <LOL> > > John Francis wrote: > > > The only question is whether there is, among that number, > > a photographer who would bother to go through the effort > > of learning how to do things "the hard way", and who would > > then be able to produce better photographs. >
