On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Jarosław Brzeziński wrote:
> cameras that come in the way of your photographic view. If you own an
> old all-manual camera, you need to focus on technics: how to get
> focusing and metering right, instead of zeroing-in on your subject.
> With modern cameras you concentrate on the vision and let the device
> compute the distance and exposure.
The distance and the exposure is dependent on your vision. Is it the
distance to the highlight in the girl's eye or to the cigar in the
tycoon's mouth that your vision demands of the device to compute? Do
you want the device to compute the exposure for the trashcan in the
shadow or the exposure for the sunlit cracks of wall paint?
With all-automatic cameras, you are forever unsure whether the
device's heuristics are in synch of your vision, and therefore are
perpetually worrying about technicalities all the MORE. Working
manually, you simply say what you mean.
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