Hi, >>I just don't understand why so many digi users love to mention how many >>hundreds or thousands of exposures they've made. Most are probably >>worthless pap made just to "see what happens" Reminds me of when I got my >>little Sony - I took snaps of everything - the heater vent, my foot, fifty >>snaps of the tree out front - all of which were worthless other than to >>quell the excitement of having a new camera that could take lots of pics >>without film.
> On the whole I tend to agree, except to say that digital encourages > experimentation and honing of skills, and therefore personal > gratification. This surely is not a bad thing? But measuring this by > exposures made to date is odd for sure. [...] yes - I think that Shel is not querying the numbers, but the apparent need to quote the numbers. 'Shooting round the subject' has been commonplace for donkeys' years, of course, and has been a source of mystery to many non-photographers for just as long. -- Cheers, Bob "The photographer is like the cod, which lays a million eggs in order that one may be hatched" -- George Bernard Shaw
