Bob, While I cannot answer for the 'older generation' I can say something on this as I did study Photography & Digital Imaging at the University of Westminster (formerly the Polytechnic of Central London) coming up to 10 years ago. My experience was that although the lecturers had years of solid experience in photography (and PCL was one of the first colleges in the Country to teach photography), they had very little experience of digital and we all felt we were learning together. We did do a lot of physics of CCD's etc and fourier theory but that was not so practical. So I think, with things moving so quickly, the only people that really understand digital are the people doing it everyday, not the lecturers. What we learnt about digital was extremely useful for the theory but in terms of experience it gave me very little, as technology and possibilities have moved on so much. For as long as we are making exposures and using lenses, most of the photographic theory is still valid, Ok learning about the chemical constituents of developers is less useful to me know. In a way we are the future digital lectures and it is our experience that we will pass on to future generations. Digital is easier to pick up, but mastering it is completely different.
Nathan Gaydhani BSc. nathan - photography and digital imaging www.nathan.org.uk >Which brings me back to the digital aspect. I wonder how many >photographers working well in a digital environment learnt their skills >at college years ago. How many of the older generation who had a more >basic grounding in theory are finding digital not too hard a conversion? >Bob =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
