Shel Belinkoff mused: > > I was talking with a friend earlier and the conversation got around to > modern cameras as he's thinking about getting a digi for his daughter. > There wasn't much i could help him with since I know so little about modern > cameras, and apart from shooting a few frames with John's istD and a lesser > number of frames with Juan's istD, and one frame with a Minolta a couple of > years ago, I've never used or even handled a modern autofocus camera. > That's probably quite unusual for this list. That got me to wondering how > many people here have never used a fully manual camera - no autofocus, no > modes, no built-in meter. Anyone?
I think that last clause - no built-in meter - will be the biggest hurdle. Even my very first 35mm camera (a fairly cheap badge-engineered 'Hanimex') had a built-in meter, as did my first SLR (A Spotmatic II). Not coupled to the exposure system, admittedly, but still built in to the cameras. I have to go back to my earliest days with my Brownie 127, and learning on my father's Agfa fold-out (and a Weston meter), to exclude myself from your list.
