It sounds a bit of a strong viewpoint, doesn't it. What I mean is the limited lightvalues a film can take. It can soon be too light (my K2 only has 1/1000), but more sooner gets too dark to get any decent image on film. With a camcorder I can go till I have only the light of a matchstick. Of course the image changes in quality dramatically. But were I to be ready to take pictures in all of those extreme situations, I'd have to be carrying an awful lot of equipment and what's more, keep changing it to suit the situation.
A digital camera can and has overcome these light problems. Bless them. That is certainly what I feel to be a very weak point of taking photographs. Yes, some time ago you needed to know quite a lot to get a decent picture. However, with all those automatic cameras, though many pictures are not that bad, you often see the limits of the automation. More than not encouter it myself if ever I handle one. Often they cannot be used manually. Try shooting without the flash. You often can't! On the other hand, if you make good use of the limits I mentioned above you can work wonders and truly create art as someone pointed out. The biggest problem I have is measuring the light correctly. One problem there is of course that the central processing and printing plant corrects my neg. no matter what I do to get a correct exposure. This is a real pain in the... But I cannot see myself print colourphotos at home. Have done so once and enjoyed it very much, but the effort and time. Phew. I have a very nice Minolta autometer IV which I use to measure the studioflash with. It's supposed to be able to do ambient light as well. Have to get the right diffusors for it. See if that helps. :-) Paul Delcour > From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:58:13 -0600 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: OT: Pentax Image in Outdoor Photographer > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Resent-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:04:47 -0400 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Delcour" > Subject: Re: OT: Pentax Image in Outdoor Photographer > > >> What I >> certainly do not like about photgraphy is the amount of technique I need to >> get a picture rigt. I feel the technique is more a burden than a blessing. >> As a choir conductor I do not sense any limits like this. As a pianist I > did >> however. My arms and fingers didn't want to do what I did. The piano was > in >> my way, as are a lot of photographical technical aspects. The absurd > limits >> of a film for instance. I hope that digital solves this all in due course. > > > I would like you to expand on "the absurd limits of a film", I am curious to > know what you mean. > If you think phototechnique is hard now, you should have been doing > photography 30 or more years ago, when a photographer actually had to have > some photo technical knowledge. > > William Robb > >
