Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug Herr writes: > I also believe that the technophobe's vision will > eventually be limited by reliance on automated > camera features. I don't think there's any connection between the two. That's like saying that da Vinci's visions of flying machines would not have been possible if he had had ball-point pens and plain copy paper, or Adobe Illustrator. I'm sure that da Vinci and other persons with talent can have all sorts of vision no matter what medium they use to express themselves. And for those who have talent but dislike the technical side of a medium such as photography, the equivalent of a "point-and-shoot" may be just what they need. > The automatic features can do a good job of handling > the situations that the camera designers expected to > occur but where the photographer is pushing the envelope > to where the camera's programmers hadn't anticipated, > a lack of technical knowledge or an inability to override > a camera's automation will become a stumbling block. Perhaps, but the majority of photography--even great photography--never pushes any technical limits. Virtually all of the most famous photographs in history required no special considerations from a technical standpoint at all.