Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It depends on which is more important to you, the process or the end result. You only have to scroll through the endless menus once, to set the camera up, and even on top of the line Nikons it takes me no more than 30 minutes, because I have made it a point to understand what each menu option does. After that, getting the end result, ie the photograph, is greatly simplified. Of course, YMMV. Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:21 PM, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote: > As a manual shooter all my life I've never understood how aperture, > shutter, focus, shoot can be seen as more "complicated" than punching and > scrolling through endless menus, and choosing from: 30 focus points, or > all of them, 4 or more different metering and/ auto focus "modes." > > Yes. I have used auto everything cameras. Just not with pleasure. Some may > understand "the pleasure" that accompanies manual tasks; others may not. > This goes for many different crafts. Kneading dough vs bread machine. > Drawing a line with brush or pen vs mouse or iPad. Sawing a board with a > fine Japanese blade vs a noisy motor powered blade. > > I believe the pleasure comes from body and mind working together in an > intuitive, virtually thoughtless manner; which comes only with practice of > the given craft. YMMV > > a note off the iPad, George > > On Jan 30, 2014, at 7:40 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > wrote: > >> Oh, i know how the f*ker behaves, but then i wish there is a quick +1 stop >> lever or something. Yes, i do put it on manual at times, but it really >> shouldn't be that complicated :-) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information