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- From: dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Camera Feature Wars - Photo Getting Like Video
- Message-ID: <13850@texsun.Central.Sun.COM>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:28:18 GMT
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- Mark Goldberg makes some good points. New camera features give more and more
- control over less and less. But in reality, once the film is loaded in your
- camera, the only controls you the photographer have are three: shutter speed,
- focus, and aperture. This is true whether you have a Leica M3 or a bar-code
- reading, card-eating, fuzzy-brained wonder.
-
- Newer features may make things easier for a neophyte photographer, but for
- a person that's been photographing for a while, newer features don't necessarily
- make taking good pictures easier; what they do is allow pictures to be taken
- faster. A faster shot, and more of them, is not inherently automatically
- better than one taken more slowly.
-
- The other beneficiary, beyond the fast snapper (and I mean no slam) and the
- battery-maker and the neophyte, is the camera vendor. New features make the
- current model "hot," and edge out the competition. No doubt the N90 will
- supplant the 8008S as the high-end amateur Nikon, just as the 8008-S supplanted
- the 8008, and the 8008 the FE-2/FA, and the FE2/FA the FE, and the FE the
- Nikkormat EL...
-
- Dave
-