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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 119104" data-attributes="member: 12827"><p>I have honestly asked myself that question many times. I cut my photography "teeth" in the early '70's when you had a choice of all manual cameras or <em>all manual cameras</em>. To be successful at photography, you had to have a good working knowledge of shutter speed/aperture relationships, exposure adjustment from metered exposure (because camera meters were rather unsophisticated compared to day) and light. There were no such things as computers, at least not PC's. No image graphics programs and you had to work within the limitations of the film you were using. I studied and worked very hard to become proficient at Ansel Adams' Zone System and use it to this day. </p><p></p><p>I have, for the most part, stayed true to those concepts. I have a D700 which I don't know what most of the buttons do because I don't need them. Same goes for the menu items. All of my lenses are manual focus AIS Nikkors and I doubt I will ever get an autofocus lens. My D700, for all practical purposes, is nothing more to me than a <em>digital F2 </em>. It stays in manual about 99% of the time. As does my F4S. My Hasselblad 500CM is fully manual and it does not even <em>have a meter </em>in the NC-2 eye level finder. I use hand held meters pretty much all the time.</p><p></p><p>I don't look down on people who use the auto-everything button but it is just not for me. Different strokes for different folks. I just don't want to relinquish control over the photographic process to a machine which does not have a clue what I want to do with an image.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="STM, post: 119104, member: 12827"] I have honestly asked myself that question many times. I cut my photography "teeth" in the early '70's when you had a choice of all manual cameras or [I]all manual cameras[/I]. To be successful at photography, you had to have a good working knowledge of shutter speed/aperture relationships, exposure adjustment from metered exposure (because camera meters were rather unsophisticated compared to day) and light. There were no such things as computers, at least not PC's. No image graphics programs and you had to work within the limitations of the film you were using. I studied and worked very hard to become proficient at Ansel Adams' Zone System and use it to this day. I have, for the most part, stayed true to those concepts. I have a D700 which I don't know what most of the buttons do because I don't need them. Same goes for the menu items. All of my lenses are manual focus AIS Nikkors and I doubt I will ever get an autofocus lens. My D700, for all practical purposes, is nothing more to me than a [I]digital F2 [/I]. It stays in manual about 99% of the time. As does my F4S. My Hasselblad 500CM is fully manual and it does not even [I]have a meter [/I]in the NC-2 eye level finder. I use hand held meters pretty much all the time. I don't look down on people who use the auto-everything button but it is just not for me. Different strokes for different folks. I just don't want to relinquish control over the photographic process to a machine which does not have a clue what I want to do with an image. [/QUOTE]
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