On Oct 7, 2006, at 12:11 AM, K.Takeshita wrote: > ... But I rather like fiddle with exposure, bracketing and other > things just as > I used to shoot the film. That's my pleasure. In film cameras, it > used to > be "what you push (shutter button) is what you get" and no going > back to the > image.
This is only true with transparency film and presupposes that you understand how the film and processing work. You have no control other than focus and exposure. The film and processing are a constant. For color or B&W negative film, from which you would make snapshots, you still only have control over focus and exposure at time of exposure. All the magic that allows "press the button and leave the rest for us" is in the operator of the photofinishing machine to do the corrections and adjustments you had in mind. > Please note that jpeg shooting to me is mostly for the snap > shooting for > printing, and it still gives some latitude for adjustment later, if > one > want. There are many people who think the same way like me. They > think the > digital photography took the pleasure of shutter tripping after much > "thinking" and brought it right into the digital darkroom for later > manipulations, that in itself is just fine. I do a lot of those. > But that > part in strict sense is no longer a picture taking (at least to me). It is difficult to understand what you are saying. You seem to be saying you want to be able to take over the photofinishing process from the computer and expect perfect results out of the camera. But this is NOT traditional film photography, where you ONLY have control of focus and exposure at time of shooting. I hate "fiddling" with the camera. I want to make my exposures in as simple and unconstrained a manner as possible to achieve the photographs I'm seeing. Even when I'm shooting "snapshots". That's why I stopped shooting slides years ago (crappy dynamic range, poor exposure latitude, too much fussing around with bracketing...), and why my DSLR has only rarely been on any setting other than RAW format capture. I see the process of fiddling with the camera as a way to break my concentration and lose the pictures I want to create. The ability to occasionally process a RAW capture to a JPEG in camera, with optional adjustment controls, may prove to be a boon if I need a quick snap to print directly from the camera or transfer to a computer in the field. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
