>
> I really think that 25 years ago, most people who bought cameras with match
> needle ttl metering were pretty serious about it anyway. After investing
> that much money into a camera (Spotmatics cost around $300US 30 or 35 years
> ago - a lot of money back then!), my bet is that if they didn't know much
> about photography, they'd try to figure out ~why~ Uncle Ned's moving hand
> was blurry (mind you, I'd say, "hey, the hand's blurry; it shows movement -
> cool!"), ask someone who knows, and figure out that they should set the
> shutter speed above 1/30th next time.
>
> And, to repeat, by the time one bought a ttl metering SLR, they probably
> knew what they were doing anyway.
>
> Problem today, is that so many buy SLR's for use only in the AE mode. So,
> when the picture doesn't turn out, "something's wrong with the camera", not
> "I wonder what I did wrong". Mind you, most of these "goons" as you call
> them, would have been buying instamatics way back when, and getting bad
> photos with them, too. <g>
>
> cheers,
> frank
>
> "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist
> fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
>
>
>
>
> >From: Alan Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: Do Smarter Cameras make Dumber Photogs?
> >Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:34:44 +1300
> >
> <snip>The same goons that set a modern camera to
> >fully automatic because they don't know any better twenty years ago
> >wouldn't have known anymore, they would have just moved the dials until the
> >needle lined up. Photography is not rocket science, the basics are very
> >easy to learn then it is a matter of experimenting and finding what works.
> >
> >Alan
> >
>
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