Originally posted by regken Again, if this is real. Can you imagine using a 50 f1.4 at f1.4 in low light of a stage performance and being able to isolate focus on different aspects of the scene.
If things get too damned easy who or what are we going to have left to blame when we take crappy photos?
It's like I've always said about why I prefer fishing over hunting:
If you go hunting and don't get anything....you're just a crappy hunter. If you go fishing and don't catch anything....you just say "they weren't biting today" and, like the fish, you too are off the hook.
It's interesting to me how each generation keeps raising the bar on what is taken for granted. I'm not that old, but I remember when autofocus wasn't around yet. Today there are consumers who absolutely can not wrap their minds around the fact that there ever was a time when cameras had to be manually focused. Autofocus, liveview, 100% auto-exposure, video recording, and zoom lenses are something that a good-sized chunk of the population just naturally assumes
every camera has.
I handed my K100D to a coworker one day and he held it at arm's length. He was wondering why he couldn't see anything in the LCD and I was wondering what the hell he was doing. Show people the camera with a manual focus prime lens attached and smoke comes out of their ears. Most of them think the focus ring is a zoom ring. Tell them that your camera doesn't record video and they give you a look that tells you what a chump they think you are for buying such a piece of junk.
I'm so tickled even by long-obsolete stuff partly because when I was a kid as far as I knew film all came in rectangular plastic cartridges and "camera" meant "Kodak Instamatic". That was the extent of the world of photography around me. I'm going back and playing with all the gee-whiz kewlness I missed out on the first time around.