dennis2146 wrote:
....... But take a very new person who has never owned a camera before. It isn't quite as simple as we had it. Now the cameras have a menu, no film but formatting, auto focus, auto everything and on and on. Mastering the camera is one thing but to also master the computer workings inside the camera is something else again. I think possibly lighthouse forgot all of that.
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Dennis
But we weren't talking to someone who had never owned a camera before, we were talking to someone with pro class lenses who is comfortable working in manual.
Dennis, I love helping people improve their photography.
I do it all the time.
I happen to very very strongly disagree with the statement you made above though.
AND it does not apply to the situation that the Op put in front of us. The OP said he was comfortable working in manual. To me, that means that he knows how to set his exposure triangle manually, so the menu systems are understood well enough to do that.
It is much much simpler to learn than
we had it.
It is so much easier to learn quickly these days.
The immediate feedback available from our instruments/tools today is what enables this to happen.
We have preshot histograms available to us, preshot exposure live view, aftershot histograms, immediate review, and embedded exif data.
I estimate the potential learning speed available to a beginner today is almost tenfold to what it was "in the old days", and so, so ,so much cheaper. Zero dollars per shot.
But if you aren't going to get out there and press the shutter, how is this ever going to happen?