> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Francis" > Subject: Re: Do Smarter Cameras make Dumber Photogs? > > > > > > > Sigh. Yet another rehashing of the tired old argument > based on > > the questionable premise that the mere presence of > automation > > somehow eliminates the photographer's ability to think. > > > > I prefer to believe that a good photographer knows when > to turn > > off the automation, and when it's OK let the camera take > care of > > one (or more) of the settings. > > Believe what you like, but the majority of the > "photographers" that I know wouldn't know how to set an > exposure without some sort of automation is their life > depended on it.
I can believe that, quite easily. The only question is whether there is, among that number, a photographer who would bother to go through the effort of learning how to do things "the hard way", and who would then be able to produce better photographs.
