Which Sony do you have?joecichlidMay 25 2010, 12:15:04 UTC
I am running a Sony Alpha 350 myself and I love it. One thing I do is run it fully manual, nothing preset or automatic for me. Since it doesn't cost anything to look at the digital prints before actually printing them I shoot a few photos, adjust the camera, shoot a few more, adjust the camera, shoot even more, adjust teh camera yet again and shoot more still. I wind up with tons of photos of the same thing but it allows me to get at least one or two good printable photos of what I want and I don't have to spend hours in Photo Shop working on them. :)
The camera don't have an eye for composition. There are still pictures that a person can do a better job with the settings. Or, maybe I'm just better with my old fully manual camera than the automated camera I have now. I find that pictures from an automatic camera need more Photoshopping* than pictures from my manual camera needed work in the darkroom.
* I actually use Gimp, which is a free Photoshop like program.
As much as the camera does the work for you, I think there are still many many people who still manage to take crappy photos with their cameras.
That said, I think that digital cameras also let you learn how to take good photos a lot faster. There's the instant feedback in the screen of whether or not the shot looked like you were expecting it to. When I had my manual film SLR, I was generally hesitant to 'waste' a shot since I had to pay to have each shot developed to see it. Plus by the time I saw it, I no longer remembered what settings I had been using anyhow. I'm looking forward to my first D-SLR. I've been pondering getting one for years now but I haven't done enough research to know which model I want. I suspect I'd be happy with ANY DSLR at this point.
I miss my old film SLR, and access to a darkroom to develop my own photos. I love having a digital camera for convenience, but sometimes it's nice to have the option of both, especially when the "auto everything" is making the wrong assumptions. B)
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* I actually use Gimp, which is a free Photoshop like program.
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That said, I think that digital cameras also let you learn how to take good photos a lot faster. There's the instant feedback in the screen of whether or not the shot looked like you were expecting it to. When I had my manual film SLR, I was generally hesitant to 'waste' a shot since I had to pay to have each shot developed to see it. Plus by the time I saw it, I no longer remembered what settings I had been using anyhow. I'm looking forward to my first D-SLR. I've been pondering getting one for years now but I haven't done enough research to know which model I want. I suspect I'd be happy with ANY DSLR at this point.
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p.s. When I tried to load mysticchyna.livejournal.com/profile, my browser warned me that there was potentially malware-infecting stuff on that page.
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Have a good birthday this week!
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