One thing that I think of when I hear friends talking about their New Mega Mega digital camera and super lenses. I think of the old school Press photographers, pre focus a 127mm Ektar to say 8 feet, put in a flash bulb the size of a 60 W bulb, @ f 16 Tri-X pack film, focal plane shutter 125th/s get 1 shot for sure, maybe a couple. They would shoot wide and crop those enormous (by today's standards) negatives.
Todays DSLRs press guys use are more of a high resolution movie camera, just hammer away at 11 fps. Still I often see them pre-focusing on an object and planning ahead.
11 hahaha! Try 30fps! Machine gunning gets the job done for the press. They don't care if they were shooting with toilet paper. They got a job to do and photos to bring to print.
Not sure he was talking about a camera body there.Easy! It depends which model of the old body you have. With many you would have to put some dollar bills in but for some you can actually get some money back.
Honestly, I don't think having two different kits at one's disposal is all that crazy - as long as one keeps them organized such that one doesn't accidentally mount a lens onto the wrong camera. I actually enjoy having a choice between different systems (as well as film formats!) available to me. Every system has its strengths and weaknesses, and its own unique character and feel. Perhaps some of the nostalgia you are experiencing is due to not only how well that first kit worked and the positive experiences you had with it, but also what the other kit seems to be lacking in comparison. A camera is more than just a spec sheet and features list.I do miss my old FD kit though - the old F1 and A1 were great cameras, but such is progress - running 2 kits for the sake of nostalgia would be crazy.
His body???? then it's probably worth nothing.Not sure he was talking about a camera body there.
The old boy photographers I knew in my teens had little time for in body metering, which had become the norm at that time. Automatic exposure that was getting everyone excited, they treated as silly. I thought they were being fuddy-duddy, why were the magazines full of glossy advertisements for AE metering if it was irrelevant to good photography?
What they understood and I didn't, is the contents of the frame and the subject I wanted to emphasise may or may not be the same thing. Experience told them the correct exposure, and a Weston confirmed any doubts. They were continually tweaking the exposure dials a click one way or the other as light changed, as I find myself doing now. In other words they were always on when carrying a camera. Not everyone is. Some people see a shot and have little sense of what setting the camera was previously left at, and for such people automation is a real aid. The old school photographers have mostly gone, and a new generation have grown up expecting the camera to do the thinking for them. Most of the time it does, but to assume it will always get things right is a mistake.
Honestly though, I hand my EOS 500n over to whoever is with me, put the knob on green and tell them to shoot and 9 time out of ten if they have a good eye they'll capture a good to decent photo.
For myself I shoot manual 99% of the time. I don't trust the meter more than getting me halfway there. Even moreso for digital. The meter is a bucket of lies I tell ya! Lies!
The only meter that lies is Nikon matrix meter. Other meters do not lie but perhaps you don't understand them.
I do not have any problems with the Nikon matrix meter. I strongly suspect you are experiencing Operator Assisted Failure [OAF], as in the OAF did this or the OAF did that. You might want to go back an read the manual.
The only meter that lies is Nikon matrix meter. Other meters do not lie but perhaps you don't understand them.
I do not have any problems with the Nikon matrix meter.
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