P3D Re: manual cameras and Realist

[Paul Talbot <ptww@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sam Smith asks a great question:
 
> In contrast, have you ever given anyone anyone who has had experience
> with older cameras a Canon EOS ? I guarantee if you just hand them a
> camera with no dials, weird sybols and abbreiviations, they will need
> just as much tutoring as a first-time Realist user would. It's all
> relative.

Or maybe even more.  A few years ago our family decided to pool their
resources and buy my Dad, a shooter most of his life, a Nikon 6006.
(We had noticed he found it very difficult to manually focus as his
eyes aged.)  The unintended consequence is that we've dramatically
slashed his shooting.  The auto-everything camera is too much work
for him to figure out.

Paul Talbot



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