P3D manual camera comment

[Tom Deering <tmd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/30/98, Joseph Covington wrote:
>The issue of not prefering for my new 3D camera being manual is not that
>I don't know how to shoot manual, it's that it is too time consuming
>when you need to shoot quickly like many of the shooting situations I
>have.

Very well put.  I feel exactly the same way.  If you shoot fast-paced or
spontaneous subjects, the shot is often lost as you reach for your light
meter.

I believe professional photographers may have a harder time reverting to an
all-manual camera, since they have so many habits that must be re-learned.
These old habits are likely based on auto-exposure, auto-wind, auto-focus,
auto-bracket--tools to which almost every professional photog becomes
accustomed.

This may also explain why professional photographers are perceived as poor
stereo photographers.  Few may be willing or able to make the jump backward
in technology.  How many of you would give up your professional tools,
whatever they might be, for antiques?  The argument that a pro cannot learn
to shoot with expanded depth-of-field seems flimsy.

Tom

(See you all at the NSA.  I'll be the one wearing the red polyester suit.)



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