No 'ergo' about it. Even if you accept Herb's claim that the number of people interested in learning is falling (rather than just being swamped by the increase in numbers of people without much motivation) there's still no proof of a causal relationship - just a correlation. Perhaps people got dumber (or less interested) for other reasons, but instead of giving up photography entirely they just leave the camera on automatic.
In the absence of proper double-blind studies all we have is people forcing their own interpretation on questionable statistics - soapbox oratory rather than hard science. > ergo, smarter cameras make dumber photogs. > > Herb Chong wrote: > > > > all that tells me is that the number of people who really do want to learn > > is falling. there is too much temptation to turn on the meter or AF and let > > it do everything for you, even in a photo course. >
