Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry, Henry...I'm old enough to have started with cameras I had to actually master...my first real camera was a battered IIIc with a 50 ...and a Weston meter....And no courses, no instruction.....and it wasn't difficult.... PhotoShop is a zillion layered and featured, humongous and complex program....I have been working with it without courses or instruction, other than the book The Digital Darkroom.....I'm not suggesting that people shouldn't use PhotoShop, just that it takes some real commitment to master... B. D. henry wrote: >> >> Johnny Deadman wrote: >> >>> Photoshop isn't hard. It's no harder than you Leica. >>> >>> If I had one request to the Photoshop Gods (apart from 16-bit layers, that >>> is) it would be for an extended 'custom' filter that would let you create >>> new filters based on the matrix model, but with a lot more control. >>> >> Come on, JD, "no harder than your Leica?" In a pig's eye! I love >> PhotoShop, but it's no all mechanical Leica M. Your very comment about >> wanting a custom filter that would allow the creating of "new filters >> based on the matrix model" proves it. The what?!!?? >> >> I think the reality is that folks who master, or quasi-master PhotoShop >> tend to forget how damn complex it is, and how steep the learning curve. >> >> BTW, I'm not suggesting that it isn't worth the effort, just pointing >> out that there really is a great deal of effort involved in begining to >> master the program... >> >> B. D. >> >> > No B.D. ! > > You are missing the point. > > If you were starting today for the first time ever with a manual camera, > you'd think it was soooooo complicated! > > In fact, if you were handed a cheap Point & Shoot and a Leica you would > get better exposures from the P&S. > > Once you know the basics of photography, a manual camera is simple to use. > But starting with no photographic knowledge would be utterly confounding! > > Photoshop is very much the same. > > Henry > > >