Steve, For myself, I would say yes, digital has improved my skills - the results I get are better! I watched the pdml as digital became available, and the posted pictures got better. People were learning faster because of the instant feedback. It convinced me to buy a *istDS and I've not looked back.
You get instant feedback and you take more chances with digital. Both help produce better pictures. Film costs and time lag to results were barriers to my learning. Now those are gone! Care and patience are still necessary for success. Good pictures still take 'seeing', and then thought & planning to execute. A room full of monkeys on laptops might eventually knock out a Shakespear sonet, but it's not likely. In a similar sense, digital at first strains your editing abilities. (You can take everything then sort it out at home later.) It becomes a Ying & Yang sort of thing where you take more pix than you need to, then tire of editing so many pix and go back to chimping and pruning bad stuff right away, then to taking better stuff to begin with...but the cycle is continuous and recurring. Regards, Bob S. On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Steve Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just curious that's all, I'll be getting a digital soon too. If you can't > beat em, join em, lol. The wife blew off > 87 snaps yesterday at a school event yesterday, she is in hog heaven. I > guess the point I am trying to get across > is if you have the ability to fire 20 shots at the same subject, are you > going to take the same amount of set-up > time for f/stop, exposure, background, composition, etc. as you would with > film? > > Steve > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
