The last option would be for serious types and shift almost everything to the PS stage, e.g., control your DoF, etc. The ultimate RAW file.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:39 PM, P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sure you could program in an aesthetic sense ability but it would pretty > much follow rules, so either you'd get the general rules that make a good > photograph, which you can find in any discussion of the rule of thirds and > the golden section in a beginning to intermediate book on art or > photography, or you'll get some programmers quirky idea of what makes a > photograph good, or most likely someones attempt at distilling all "good" > photographs, into some kind of mathamatical model for each photo, then > averaging them all together. The third option is the least likely to produce > anything actually good, so I expect that is the method that will be most > popular. > > On 4/20/2011 11:45 AM, Steven Desjardins wrote: >> >> OK, here's a question: in 10, 25, 50 years, whatever, do you think >> that cameras will have enough intelligence to focus and expose better >> than humans, even experienced photographers? I'll assume that >> composition is left to the person (for now). Of course, it's also >> possible that the cameras will simply capture so much information that >> these settings will be essentially irrelevant. >> >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:28 AM, P. J. Alling >> <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Except that's the sales pitch, in pretty much any advert. that I can >>> remember anyway. >>> >>> On 4/19/2011 8:33 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: >>>> >>>> On Apr 19, 2011, at 7:50 PM, David J Brooks wrote: >>>>> >>>>> There are a lot of people at the horse shows now, and i suppose other >>>>> sport events, that do not rely on me for photos anymore but have >>>>> bought them self's the latest Canon and Nikon Dslr's. >>>>> They put them in auto mode and shoot away. >>>>> They eventually come up and ask me why my pictures are clear and in >>>>> focus and theirs are not. >>>>> They had no idea they could change settings. Either the sales person >>>>> neglected, or they just did not RTFM. >>>>> >>>>> I suspect the later. >>>>> >>>>> Dave >>>> >>>> Buying an expensive sophisticated camera and expecting that the owner >>>> will >>>> suddenly become a good photographer is kinda like buying a Cadillac >>>> Escalade >>>> for your teenager and expecting it will make them a good driver. Hope >>>> springs eternal. >>>> >>>> stan >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! >>> >>> --Marvin the Martian. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> > > > -- > Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! > > --Marvin the Martian. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
