[quote=Godzilla][quote=davpal]if you in the financial position that the cost of film and developing are not a problem fine
but there are some of us who can not afford this. digital cameras are a blessing freeing us of that burden
we can take as many pictures we desire get good pictures without the cost of film. should you travel to three
diffrent places an take a total of three hundred pictures in each location total nine hundred pictures
go on your computer check the cost of a roll of kodack film 36 exp to buy and develop 25 rolls for 900 pictures
need i say more[/quote

There’s actually a lot of expense in digital once you add in the cost of software, printers and ink, expired drives and expired software for older drives etc. Then change operating systems cause one pisses you off too much.[/quote]

OK, fine, but I consider a digital photo the END & I do not normally make prints..... email will take four jpgs, if someone wants more, I snail mail a usb drive. Now and then I fall into the "large format" trap and yearn for my 4x5, but have woken up before I do something stupid...

I feed a hugh (4x5 foot TV screen) from my computer, I sit across the room, about 8 ft away, and the photos are fine and the text easy to read..... with a remote, I switch the TV screen from TV to computer. With the computer keyboard on my lap............. Works like a charm.. Ed

Ansel Adams never took any photo coarses either

the best I was ever able to do was 3 36ex rolls for $10 with mail in processing (fuli color slides)... comes to a little less the 10 cents a photo.... TALK ABOUT COST??? remember before color or b/w 35mm, the cost of feeding a 4x5 graphic...

A lot of discussion about how much flash is enuff. check the two group photos I sent. The second one was accidental and the flash did not go off. My answer to the question is :"I let the camera worry about that", which worked. Ed

you dont want to burn a hole in the photo, you just want to fill in the deep shadows

I held the shutter down a bit too long and got this one w/o the flash.... I always(when I remember) fire the flash outdoors...

I dont get to close so that the flash does not dominate the exposure, then let the camera worry about the exposure.
the flash filled in this one nicely...

yeh, I hate to lose arguments also.

NO, AND NOW i CANNOT fiND THE (SUPPLIED) CAMERA MANUEL, I am hopeing the David manual described above solves the problem (if it ever gets here)... Ed

yeh, but there are two modes: press & hold and press to open and press agn to close.... was a while ago, I am looking forward to the books to simplify a lot of the fog

having been married >50 years may I assure you that the two words "feminine & logic" are mutually exclusive.

With 20-20 hindsight I'll raise you one. I shoulda bought one of his books before I made the "buy" decision for any camera in the past.

My cel phone has the capabilities of doing everything but walking my dog, unfortunately as more capabilities are added, it has become more and more difficult to use to the point where IN FACT I have begun to phase it out in favor of email.. When ordering on line, I tell vendors that I don't have a working telephone, escentially true....

yeh, David Busch's manual looks promissing, going to download it on Nook. Thanks (someone) for that. Ed

doesn't have anything to do with teaching photography, I know what I want the camera to do, just sometimes it is difficult to figure out how to tell the camera to do it... In most cases the capabilities of the camera is what I bought the damn thing for so I know what it can or cannot do, just need better instruction in how to "drive" it. I tried to set the shutter to what used to be called "bulb" and buried my head in the manuel & ten minutes later still could not figure out how to do it...