RonFrank
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I will agree digital makes things easier than film. But the settings on my digital are not any different than someone with a film camera.
Digital makes things a LOT easier. First, you have instant feedback, and image review. That is HUGE. I think instant feedback is the biggest factor in the digital revolution which happened very fast.
If you find that the settings on your digital camera don't differ much vs. film, you either have limited options on your digital camera, or you have not been paying much attention.
Film is limited to 5500K color temp (or tungsten and BW if you shoot that stuff). Digital color temp is highly adjustable, and that alone is an entire set of menu options. Photographers used to collect filters like precious gems.. now, no need.
Digital has made things easy for the majority of people out there taking photo's. They push a button, and get reasonable results. In the days of film students would show me entire rolls of film where they screwed up maybe just one thing, but that was enough to render an entire roll, or rolls of film useless.
For UW work using film, well forget about it unless you were willing to spend thousands on a camera/lighting, and even then things were not all that good. The Nikonos was a rangefinder, and focus was by in large, a guess. There were a couple of models that introduced AF into the mix, but they cost a mint.
Ohh how quickly we forget!
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