Stein wrote: > Dear Joe, > > I would speak if my mouth hadn't dried up entirely. The YouTube > movie is beyond good. I intend to bronze it and hang it from my > rear-view mirror. I may send it to New Guinea to be worshiped by a > native tribe. > > My own experience with the perfectly-good digital camera yesterday > at the Christmas luncheon has confirmed my suspicions. I have been > taking pictures with cameras for the last 50 of my years starting with a > Brownie 620 and progressing up to the full studio. Cameras of all shapes > and sizes have passed through my hands, fallen off my dashboard, and > rolled over my foot. I have produced recognizable and salable images > with most of them. > > I wanted pictures of children opening presents, in that short > interval between when the box comes open and the toy ceases working. You > know - the bit where they either injure themselves or another child with > the Raggedy Andy doll. ( It CAN be done.) > > Perhaps I expected too much of the camera. Perhaps the camera > expected more of me. It seemed to hesitate before each exposure, > possibly trying to steel itself for another lame composition. I gave it > up after 3 pictures, and then tried to reset it to work faster. I don't > know about you, but the only time I want to scan a menu is when it > features garlic bread to start and a decent dessert to finish. I closed > the camera up and searched for lunch. Not to start a digital vs. film debate, but let's be fair: What digital camera are you using? My digital camera shoots 5 frames/second at full 8MP res (slower if the on-camera flash needs to recharge). The delay from shutter-press to shutter-curtain is under 100mS. It'll shoot more than 20 frames in succession before it has to pause for the CF to catch up. One can't indict digital because one tries a garden-variety digital camera; that makes no more sense than indicting film because one tries it out with a Disc camera. Cheers - Dana ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.