"Stickshift" is a good analogy. If you don't learn what a camera on "automatic" setting is doing for you, you'll never know how to improve your shots.
Any P&S is going to limit a photographer eventually, because it is making decisions that cannot be over-ridden. However, there are too many people who start out with a digital P&S, get crappy photos, and blame the technology.
You still have to know the basics of photography in order to get decent photos. In a lot of places (junior college, etc), that will mean film and darkroom time.
That's why Nikon will still make the entry-level, all-manual 35MM camera.
I still remember when a rather new member of our development team got a call from his old boss because they had just found a comment in some production code that said:
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"Stickshift" is a good analogy. If you don't learn what a camera on "automatic" setting is doing for you, you'll never know how to improve your shots.
Any P&S is going to limit a photographer eventually, because it is making decisions that cannot be over-ridden. However, there are too many people who start out with a digital P&S, get crappy photos, and blame the technology.
You still have to know the basics of photography in order to get decent photos. In a lot of places (junior college, etc), that will mean film and darkroom time.
That's why Nikon will still make the entry-level, all-manual 35MM camera.
Some code probably should be buried.
You can't ignore him. The Windows fanatics are all behind him! Both of them!