civilized ku # 510 ~ huh?
Friday, May 21, 2010 at 10:21AM 
Bridge and Macdonough Monument ~ Plattsburgh, NY • click to embiggenAs many already know, I yearn for a "simple" camera - shutter speed and aperture controls (with in-camera metering), an auto setting (with aperture / shutter speed priority opinions) for those few times I might need or want it, selectable WB / ISO settings, and manual focusing with AF for when I want / need it.
Why do I want a simple camera? The answer is really quite simple - a simple camera keeps things simple.
The technical aspect of obtaining a good picture - i.e. good exposure and focus / DOF - is not anything at all like rocket science. It is, in fact, incredibly simple and easy.
Although, it must be stated that the current crop of owner / instruction manuals for digital cameras make even my very photo-experienced / knowledgeable head spin. If I didn't have the simple basics of camera operation needed to make a picture with good exposure and focus fixed in my brain, I don't know if I would ever figure it out by using those photographic towers of babble.
Especially so, with nonsense like this ridiculous article (and comments) floating around the main stream media.
Reader Comments (4)
Interesting troll under the bridge.... :)
I guess they didn't get the memo on Photography is Easy, Photography is Difficult by Paul Graham.
The Shadow giving the troll a hat, is cool.
And when I was much younger and lived there, there was an old high-arch bridge over the tracks at this location. Must be the former abutments to the right and in the center foreground... Time sure flies.