I guess it depends upon whether or not you want to be a photographer, or a
picture taker.
I've been doing photography seriously for over 35 years...And I still screw
up now and again. The difference is that when I screw up, I usually know
WHY I screwed up. I had to learn when everything was done manually.
(Technology is good -- I did learn to print with a stabilization printer
(pretty high tech then), but that forced me to control my prints completely
under the enlarger -- no straight Dektol "hot soup".)
As I've mentioned, I'm working with a young woman -- helping her find out
what still photography, and especially sports photography, is about. We're
using an OM-2, so some of the taking is automated, but you still have to
make decisions about aperture, where the light is, film speed, focusing,
depth-of-field, etc. I've loaned her an incident meter so she can find out
what light is about.
I guess I could let her use the F100 and just bang away on AF -- but every
time she uses my OM gear, I'd like her to take away a sense of what she did
right or wrong...Not what the camera did. She's taken some horrible shots,
and some shots that she really likes -- all part of the process.
Larry
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of AG Schnozz
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 12:33 PM
>
> Hmm.
>
> When I bought the OM-2S, it was pretty much the
> "state-of-the-art" in camera technology at the time. I
> definitely didn't want any 15-20 year old technology. (course,
> that would have been '60s cameras...)
>
> Why would somebody starting out with a system NOT pick the
> current technology?
>
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