Originally posted by nuts43 Muse:
Digital photography seems to have taken the fun out of the process. When before it was ok dealing with the limitations of the film loaded, or on occasion changing rolls mid-use, we could still easily concentrate on taking good pictures. We used to know deep in our hearts, generally, what the finished picture would look like. Photography used to be simpler and more satisfying. But today it is different. More time is spent on the camera than the subject.
Wow, it's all quite the opposite for me, I finally have total control from input to output and am well satisfied. As a bonus it's a fraction of the cost to shoot an equivalent number of frames on film. I've just effectively retired my original *ist D and I worked out the other day that it's ended up costing me about AU$0.08/shot, not bad. So the cost of the body pales into insignificance over a few years.