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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eidian" data-source="post: 167052" data-attributes="member: 14514">I have been using the SB-50DX with my 50 mm Series-E prime lense. That prime lens is old so there is absolutely no metering going on when I take pics with it. I've been practicing bokeh like a mo-fo and trying to learn ideal settings in all light situations when I can take my time (i.e. not taking family pics). This has been helping me re-learn settings.I did try reading and I wasn't getting anywhere. I've realized that I can read every resource in the world but many times that isn't going to do crap for me. I'm not dumb (and I'm not implying that you said that I am), but reading is only going to take me so far...there's a point when I'm going to have to acquire skill by actually doing. That's why I asked how much I need to know.I've found that trying after reading has helped me understand what was I trying to comprehend in print. This is how I have been learning about old mechanical watches, I read a page five times on "run to the banking" but it didn't sink in. It wasn't until I opened up a $5 watch, took out the balance wheel (destroying the balance spring in the process), and disassembled the Escapement Lever that I realized what the author was trying to explain. In this case, I did need to know how the Escapement Lever works in order to be able to fix it. But as Mrf pointed out, the beauty of ttl is "...that I don't have to understand it..." if I don't want to. I believe this to be true: it's a tool that I can use but I don't have to know how it does what it does--I only need to know what it does and how I can use it.</blockquote>

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