On 26/07/15 21:45, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 15:23:26 +0100, Davey wrote:

On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 12:38:31 +0000 (UTC)
Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 23:43:19 +0100, Davey wrote:

My first reaction would be to disable anything that took control away
from me.

Agreed. I've got a 1977 Nikon F2 and I've no plans to change it. At
least half the enjoyment is fumbling around with things like shutter
speed, aperture, depth of field and focus AFAIC.

To me, the perfect gift would be a digital pack to fit onto my Olympus
OM-2 to replace the 35mm film.

You might be onto something with that idea...

The problem is that the advantages of 'digitala' are not just replacing
the film. And indeed a 35mm sized CCD has been a huge challenge as well.

The advantages are all to do with metering and focussing by analysing
the digital signal.

Although its taken a long time to get that simpler - my D200X has no
less than 27 possible ways to autofocus... and a lot of ways to merter
as well.

Finally the digits are starting to be a help, not a hindrance.




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