Making a lot of exposures is important to learning how to use your camera and lenses. But *just* making a lot of exposures doesn't teach you much by itself, it's only with the addition of "and paying attention to what you're doing as well as the results you get" that you learn something.
Once you understand your equipment, making a lot of exposures is useful sometimes as the article Mark Roberts posted demonstrates. But, frankly, I find that to be a rarity. MOST of the sports photographers I know make a lot of exposures but not in a machine-gunning way … they are simply working with a fast moving event that requires a lot of exposures be made because most of them will not be at the right time. Some photo luminary once said, "I only need to know three things: where to stand, where to point the camera, and when to press the shutter button." You need to make enough exposures to know where to stand and where to point the camera. What comes over time, with study and practice, is when—and how often—to press the shutter button. G -- 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.
