I am SLOWLY getting acclimated. I picked up an SDHC card reader ($8.54 at Wal-Mart) and all is now made clear, albeit I still do not know why my computer refuses to acknowledge any digital camera hooked to it. But, so long as the card reader works, then all is made reasonably clear.
I did get my M42 adapter today and I've been having a ball checking out all of my Soviet lenses and my Icarex lenses and my Kilfitt lenses. Next, the Questar, whose accessory size is M42. Now for a T-ring so I can use it on my Leica APO-Televid.
I know that I have the adaptors to allow me to kludge an M42 to Bellows II connection so I can start doing macro photography. I have a nice collection of Luminars (the entire set) and Photars (no one knows just what types were made, so no one knows just what a complete set might be -- I have one which was never catalogued, and that dates from around 1987).
I still have a huge learning curve, and I suppose I must confront Photoshop again some day, though my last experience was just so damned negative as to make me less interested in doing so. And, so far, IrfanView works just fine for me.
I do enjoy the ability to store 2356 high-quality images on a single card. That is nice -- something in excess of 65 135-36 rolls. With the M42 adapter, I have to stab about to get the proper exposure, and I can monitor the results of a given shot immediately and then correct it for the next. (LONG -- SHORT -- FIRE FOR EFFECT!) That is handy.
It still is a terribly steep and stiff learning curve, but, as you and others have noted, I can use the camera to take pictures without knowing all the bells and whistles, precisely as I can play a game of Solitaire on my PC without having to know Disk Management and the like. I do feel better now that I have the proper lens hood. Why Canon never sells lens hoods with their lenses escapes me, as most dealers do not stock them.
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