drmike99 Loc: Fairfield Connecticut

I too am a boomer. But in 8th grade in junior high virtually ALL the college-bound kids took typing. Saved our asses in high school and college. And beyond. This was school year 1958-1959!!

therwol Loc: USA

My high school offered typing to anyone who wanted to take it as a semester elective. I took "slide rule" instead. I didn't really learn how to type until e-mail came along where I work in the 1990s. I got much better at it when I had to start typing into our electronic medical records. Then I started getting carpal tunnel symptoms and went to voice recognition for at least part of that task.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

You and your classmates were some of the lucky ones! Kudos to your school system for offering it then.

anotherview Loc: California

Took a typing class at a junior college. Very useful skill that become more so with the growing use of computers.

dragonfist Loc: Stafford, N.Y.

In our high school typing was also an elective. The class was always filled with some having to wait until the following year. I took it and was thankful that I did. After I enlisted in the Navy knowing how to type got me out of a lot of crappy jobs. I ended up with a real nice nice billet working about 6 hours a day. Typists were rather rare birds where I was stationed and knowing how was a real asset.

topcat Loc: Alameda, CA

I believe that they do that on a filter, not a lense.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

Is that actually true, or do you just think that's the case? Is it disk capacity or something else?

r.grossner Loc: Rockford IL & Sarasota FL

Get an external hard drive. They are cheap enough these days.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

How does someone fight jpeg/tiff algorithms????

r.grossner Loc: Rockford IL & Sarasota FL

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

Some yokel once suggested that I switch to digital.

r.grossner Loc: Rockford IL & Sarasota FL

Meganephron Loc: Fort Worth, TX

Keeping the aperture wide open has several draw backs. First DoF will be difficult to control. You will lose optimal focus with the slightest change in distance like a Bird hopping from one twig to another as you press the shutter. All lenses have a sweet spot which is two to three f stops above maximum. This will allow for sharper focus and add a little DoF. Don’t be afraid of increasing ISO. Most modern DSLR’s have virtually no noise up to ISO 800. Some pro cameras go much higher without detectable noise.

Meganephron Loc: Fort Worth, TX

You can’t. The camera has already decided some issues that can’t be undone though PS and LR at least try to give some control back by opening image in a version of camera RAW, however it’s not the same.

jacktired

I usually don't reply to a post, because I'm just a beginner in photography. I also don't want to sound like an idiot. But I seen this post and had to reply to it. I've never had someone to teach me. I've only been shooting for about 4 years now. There's so much to learn. I've been learning through sites like this. But if a person doesn't want to learn about photography and just wants to shoot pics to put on Facebook then amateurs like me won't even bother looking at a site like this.

Anyway, back to why I'm replying. When I first bought my camera, a Canon t1i, I tried all the settings to see what they did. But after a few days I started to shoot in manual mode. Because I did, and still do, want to learn how to take a good, if no great, picture. I have taken many lousy pictures but slowly I am learning more and more the technical side of this camera and on how to try take them great shots that I've always wanted to take. I haven't taken any really great shots but I've taken some good shots. So I would tell an amature like me to start out in manual mode. They can play with the other modes but stick with manual mode if they really want to learn photography. I'd also tell them to find sites like this and to really read and practice the things they learn from sites like this. Like I have and still do.

Thank you Ugly Hedgehog for a it like this. It has become a valuable tool in my learning how to maybe one day become a good, if not great, photographer!!!