On Jul 20, 2005, at 4:29 PM, William Robb wrote:
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As often as possible, I will go out with one camera and one lens.
Sometimes it'a wide angle, sometimes a normal, sometimes a
telephoto, but always just one lens.
I find it to be a good exercise in seeing.
William Robb
I've been doing that for about a year now, generally sticking with
the istd and the FA35/2, though at times I'll use the 43 or the 77,
on my personal stuff.
For work stuff I still have the whole bag, and use everything--
lights, zooms, whatever, to get the shot I need.
Something I think needs mentioning through all this is not whether
everyone uses every feature of a "modern" camera, because of course
nobody does. The strength of these cameras is simply the availability
of features. Shel decided he needed some bracketed shots. (I'm not
picking on you Shel, but it was your desire to have auto-bracketing
that gave birth to several of these related threads). So he had to go
to the trouble of finding out which camera had this feature
available, locate a camera he could borrow, borrow it, and then learn
enough about the camera to get it to give him the bracketing.
If I decide I need auto-bracketing, I turn on that feature. Same with
a bunch of other features. If I decide to use one of them, it's
available to me. Otherwise I can happily ignore its presence, and use
those features I want to use on a regular basis.
To keep this to the topic at hand, the features I use are pretty much
all in the "exposure, focus, shoot" group. I like exposure
compensation, because I think the istd tends to shoot a little hot
for my tastes. It's a feature I've used on every camera I've owned
that had it.
I use autofocus and manual focus about half and half, I guess, though
I've never really sat down and thought it out.
Av priority is something I use much more than Tv priority. Metering
is pretty much all multi-segment, though I'll use the others if I
feel the situation warrants.
I've never been of the opinion that I was a slave to any camera. Even
though I have several feature-rich cameras, I've always known I was
the one in charge. As long as the camera works seamlessly for me, I
can go about what I got into photography for, which is to take
pictures. Fortunately, Pentax has been able to deliver cameras that
do indeed work seamlessly for me.
