[rollei_list] Re: "my problem with digital photography ..." (was: Karl Heitz, RIP (Query: Mechanical Cameras))
- From: "John A. Lind" <jalind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:29:21 -0500
At 08:08 PM 4/13/2005, Ardeshir Mehta wrote:
>Well, at least this doesn't apply to the point-and-shoots. (I am just
>WAITING for that 100-megapixel, 100-exposure disposable point-and-shoot
>digital from Kodak or Fuji for $10.98, to be made available at any
>corner store! Maybe by 2015.)
>
>Cheers ;-)
Might not for you, but it does for me with today's versions of them. I
borrowed the Other Half's new toy . . . a P/S digital to try to make a
couple 200 x 300 pixel photographs quickly for a local news release . . .
to avoid shooting a short roll, developing and scanning it. Its "program
mode" would not do what I wanted and I ended up fiddling around so much
with the knobs and pushbuttons trying to get what I could do with manual
film gear in a matter of a couple of seconds that I threw in the towel in
complete frustration. I'm accustomed to very direct control of focus and
exposure. It's frustrating as Hell trying to very indirectly nudge an
undocumented program mode around into doing what I've visualized for
execution of the photograph.
-- John Lind
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