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LUVMBDiesels · #5 03-25-2008, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Dee8go

I find that true of MOST digital cameras. I miss the completely manual, film cameras of yesteryear . . . I find that it's easier to learn the fundamentals of photography and apply them than it is to memorize all of those damned layers and layers of menues on digital cameras.

X2!

For my daughter's photography class I gave her an old Contax III 35mm range finder (great camera BTW) It does not have ANY electronics on it at all and so you learn how to use a light meter, set the fstop and speed, etc... you even get to learn about parallax! Plus the optics are amazing!

I collect older cameras and love using them. Although I do have a couple Minolta X series automatic SLRs and a couple Canon digital cameras. You just don't get the results with modern equipment you get with manual mechanical cameras.