Originally posted by LightBug I raised the same concern to one of my friend a while ago, that I seem to be more anxious to take lots of pictures with digital than with film. His answer was "Why? I take the same (few) number of pictures with either film or digital."
So I think it lies in one's own discipline. Just because one can, one doesn't have to employ machine-gun style photography when shooting digial.
Joe
Digital allows people to fall into the (incorrect) "more is better" way of thinking.
There's a lot of people out there now who will shoot a few hundred pictures that are essentially visual sewage in the hopes of being able to snatch one tasty gobbet out of the festering waste stream that they call a days shooting.
They call it experimentation to justify it, but proper experimentation requires some forethought with regard to what the end result should be.
This is generally missing from the equation, so it really isn't experimentation, it's just mindless button mashing.
You don't learn more about photography by taking more pictures, you learn by taking fewer pictures and thinking about what you are doing before you push the button.