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.... I did not say anything about your ability as a photographer! I meant that for an uninformed person to understand enough about photography to use a camera took some effort. To use it well takes years, maybe lifetimes. > >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. Read my rewrite of your last paragraph: Photography 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 NEGATIVE.....I'm not suggesting that people shouldn't use photography, just that it takes some real commitment to master... Henry