Cotty, I thoroughly enjoyed your insights into the value of digital for photographers who lack the time to spend scanning et al. I related to it because I spend too much time color-correcting my tungsten-cast shots.
But if digital is so convenient, why, then, am I nearly always the only photographer to record school events? Last week was eighth-grade awards ceremony. I took shots of my daughter, her friends, and kids who received certain special awards. I handed out my business card, instructing the parents or kids to email me in a month for the JPEGs. If digital is so convenient, why do the digital owners leave their cameras at home on such important occasions? One theory: Many digital interfaces are difficult to navigate. Every try turning off the autoflash on a Nikon CoolPix 950 or similar? Good luck finding the "off" setting, buried two or three layers deep in the arcane mode settings. I suspect that many owners never master the controls and realize they won't be able to use their camera sans flash on solemn occasions. And even if they could shut off the flash, the results would stink, since they don't own a tripod. Paul Franklin Stregevsky - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
