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| Myself at Breakaways near Coober Pedy South Australia |
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| No digital camera in sight but well exposed and able to be enlarged almost ad infinitum |
I am at week four
now of a course I am conducting for people over the age of 65.
I have a group of
interested and intrigued, but at times bewildered students.
I say bewildered
not because of whether they can grasp
the fundamentals of Digital Photography(Photography in general) but because the
cameras they have purchased that may have been recommended by a family member
or zealous salesperson, are often too confusing to use to their creative
capacity.
There is simply
too much choice on even the simpler
mirrorless or compact digital cameras.
If they want to
use all the great features on some of
these cameras the symbols,touch screen and hidden menus are a maze to work
through.
We did an exercise
today to take a light meter reading( I did so with a hand held meter) and then
set an array of older film cameras to the correct shutter and aperture
settings.
Even though they
had not seen these cameras before, and some were pretty ancient, (the cameras I
mean) they managed to do that with not too much trouble.
The earlier
digital cameras such as my first Digital SLR, the Pentax *istD, were so much
more like a real camera and so easier to learn photography on.
Maybe the camera
manufacturers should take note as the ageing population is living longer and
going on overseas trips and wanting to take photographs and unless someone
gives them some clues they can come back with over exposed and under exposed
and blurry pictures.
The phone cameras are
really useful for the main part but they also have their limitations.
Not withstanding
the above it is a great time for any one to get into photography but I reckon
everyone starting out should use a film camera with appropriate setting alongside
their digital camera to really appreciate the fundamentals and what their
modern camera is trying to do and capable of.
That was long
sentence.
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