Which is why I love my Spotmatics. Or any manual exposure camera. It
takes a few seconds to get the exposure, but it's also taught me to take
a few more seconds and look carefully at what's in the viewfinder, from
top to bottom, left to right. It's amazing how often I'll see an
unexpected lamp post or overhead wire right at the edge of the
viewfinder, forcing me to re-frame.
Stop-down metering (I don't have an F) has also acclimatised me to
checking dof on virtually every shot.
Don't take this as an "older cameras are better 'cause they teach you to
shoot properly, and new auto-everything cameras make us lazy" rant. I'm
sure that at this point, were I to buy a "modern" camera, the habits are
so ingrained that I'd do 'em anyway. I just think that for me, being
deliberate is easier when everything is done manually.
regards,
frank
Amy Hughes wrote:
> I think it's more basic than that. I think many people don't "get"
> what the viewfinder is for. They only use it to aim the camera,
> kinda like a gun sight. Hence, most snapshots have the subject in
> the center, and way too much background. Or the subject in the
> center, lots of sidewalk on the bottom, and half of the wonderful
> building being used as a backdrop cut off at the top. Or a perfectly-
> focused picture of a wall, with two blurry people in front of it.
> Or... you get the idea.
>
> Amy
>
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