Chris,
I consider myself a documentarian, not an artist. The point I wished to
make was that, even with matrix metering and autofocusing, real life is
difficult to capture accurately on film without periodic user intervention.
It is a point that Herb Keppler makes time and again in his Popular
Photography column. If some cameras can deliver well-exposed, well-focused
shots with the simple press of the shutter release, I have no problem with
that. Most can't.
The people I've met who have spoken this sentiment to me usually didn't
mean, "I don't want to be an artist," but rather, "I'd rather accomplish
what you accomplish, the easy way." If only it WERE that easy. These same
people wonder why the indoor-graduation shots they took from Row 23 with
ISO 100 film in their auto-everything P&S are underexposed.
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Chris Brogden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Each time a friend, relative, or coworker tells me, "I don't need
> anything fancy; all I need is a camera that will let me push a button
> and get a good picture," I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Why? The elitism that this smacks of is understandable to those of us who
like to treat our photographs as art, but it's a pretty broad
generalization to apply this motive to everyone who takes
pictures. <snip> I don't see anything wrong with their wanting cameras
that will
take well-exposed, properly-focused pictures with the least amount of
effort on their part.
Paul Franklin Stregevsky
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