On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 00:10:54 +0100, Bob Talbot <BobTalbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote/replied to: >SO yes: keep using you old fashioned SLR-lookalike in the old ways ... >but you are not typical of the thousands of neo-technophiles snapping >everything and anything at arms length on auto Agreed, there's tons of amateurs happily snapping away worthless garbage images :-) Just like when instamatic cameras came out. When I got the 10d, I'd been shooting with a film EOS. Not much difference in the viewfinder really. After shooting digital for a couple of days, I just wanted to put all my negs and slides in the garbage. In other words, I got much better images with digital. It wasn't because of the waste of images either, it was because digital got me out shooting more and the quality of the images astounded me. Yes, fear of wasting film is a terrible thing! Year and a half and almost to 6000 images. I don't waste images. OK, a few... -- Jim Davis, Nature Photography http://jimdavis.oberro.com/ Standard Poodles for fun BMW motorcycle for pleasure
