CHG_CANON wrote:
LOL. Old dogs never learn new tricks. Why pay $$$$ for a digital wonder of the modern world and then use it as it was meant to be used? So many think 'success' is to shoot one frame standing straight up, at eye-level, usually slightly out of focus, just like every other person who ever shot from that spot before. Their images look exactly like everyone else's. Su
Myself, most times I find that I arrive at just the right time when a thousand images will surely capture something.
I started taking photos in Junior high school with a 35mm Kowa. Well, actually, much earlier, if you count Dad's Brownie Hawkeye. Because of my interest in photography, when I joined a police department later, I was selected as an evidence technician. Yeah, plaster casts for footprints and tire marks, along with a Speed Graphic (they weren't very modern). And in the case with the Graflex were 10 film packs - 20 images max.
So if I was working Fri. - Sun., that's all I had to work with, until the film could get turned into the photo lab on Monday for processing and reloading the film packs.
Got a murder scene to process on Friday night? Got to think very, very carefully, planning each shot. And hey, don't use them all up, Got to save some film in case another important scene comes up during the rest of the weekend.
So I became a very slow, calculating photographer, with no "wasted" film.
My own 35mm film was a joy to "blow through," although paying for the film and processing myself still limited my shooting, especially with color.
Those experiences have stuck with me, even when I got my first Canon DSLR. And I'm only limited by how much storage space I have, and battery life. Even though I have plenty of both.
I'm afraid I'm kind of going the other way now though. I pop off 50 shots, and try as I might, I have a hard time selecting the "best," and deleting the rest.
Somebody's going to have a helluva job when I die, deciding what to do with them all. BTW, I've even gone back and scanned all the slides and negatives from high school (I was the newspaper and yearbook photographer).
Megabytes? Ha! More like gigabytes now.