On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 12:52:48 -0400, Tony Cooper
wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 10:59:36 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Ken Hart
wrote:

SLR with mechanical shutter speed and aperature controls, along with
ASA setting (ISO I believe is a newer term.) Match needle metering
with option to switch from full screen or spot.

you could have any camera at all and you'd choose one with 50 year old
technology???

Of course.

what on earth for?

do you choose manual typewriters over computers?

Because it still works.

so do modern cameras.

there is *nothing* that a 50 year old relic can do that a modern camera
cannot do better, more accurately and more reliably and with *much*
better results.

not only that, but this thread is about having any kind of camera, one
which would obviously work. why would someone's dream camera be a
camera that is broken?


You have never understood that other people have interests different
from your own, and that their interests may be more important to them
than yours.

While the photograph is the end result, and modern cameras can make
that end result better, more simple to achieve, and less time
consuming to finalize, the "hunt" is more satisfying to some than the
head mounted on the wall.

It was more of a challenge to get the right results with the cameras
we used to use. Meeting that challenge can be the objective of the
photographer.

There was a satisfaction to doing everything right when using the
older cameras that is not really present with today's cameras. The
camera is doing so much of the work that the photographer can only
claim to have seen what to point it at and when to push the button
That's not enough for everyone.

While you deprecate the Luddites who like to try their skill the old
way, your obsessive worship of the modern "let the camera do the work"
is distasteful to some.

I've still got something similar to this tucked away
http://collectiblend.com/Cameras/ima...eld-Camera.jpg
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Regards,

Eric Stevens