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December 2008
Digital hobbyists worry about |
Photographers worry about |
| Camera | Camera |
| Lens | Lens |
| Memory Card | Film |
| White Balance | Filters |
| ISO | Lighting* |
| JPG or raw | Composition* |
| Image Size (pixels) | Color* |
| Image (JPG) Quality | Perspective* |
| Sensor Dust | Balance and weight * |
| Contrast settings | Impact* |
| Saturation settings | Gesture* |
| High ISO NR settings | Negative space* |
| Sharpening settings | Line* |
| Black Pixels | Texture* |
| Banding | Being there . |
| Buying a third-party users guide to figure out how to use the camera | Just shooting. |
| Trying to find the menu item to change the funtion of the flash. | The film photographer already has his shot. |
| Trying to remember what CFN 37a does. | The film photographer already has moved on to the next subject. |
| Spending time online | Becoming intimate with your subject |
| Downloading pictures | Enjoying dinner |
| Working with computer in hotel | Playing with wife or girlfriend in hotel |
| Backing up day's work | Planning tomorrow's shooting |
| Charging 3 batteries | Get to sleep by 8PM |
| Wake up tired with alarm at 6AM | Wake up without alarm at 4AM, excited and ready to go |
| Tell yourself it's cloudy, roll back into bed and sleep | Play with wife or girlfriend, then get out and make the most glorious photos ever of the spectacular sunrise |
| Finally out shooting at 10AM | Back enjoying breakfast and planning rest of the day |
| Worried about everything | Stoked knowing you got fantastic shots. |
| Posting to forums | Hanging a one-man show at The Guggenheim |
*These are artistic issues which relate to the creative basic elements of an image, without which pictures suck.
Have you ever noticed how the instruction manual to most film cameras is only about 10 pages long, just enough to show you how to put in the battery once a year and load the film, while the manual to any digital camera is an indecipherable 357-page book?
I realized that this shows us how, with a film camera, you can pay attention to making pictures, while most digital shooters are distracted by worrying about their camera settings.
Most digital hobbyists are so worried about their camera settings that they never get to paying attention to their pictures, and their images suffer for it.
PLUG
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