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> you can take 100 digital photos ... for practice, learning, or stationary, long-lasting subjects. Of course you want to get a good feel for the aperture, sh

> you can take 100 digital photos ... for practice, learning, or stationary, long-lasting subjects. Of course you want to get a good feel for the aperture, shutter speed and sensitivity so that when you see a beautiful bird about to take off for flight, or a butterfly touch down ever so momentarily, you aren't fumbling with settings, and you've already got a good sense of what settings will work. Definitely agree though - many cameras have "priority" modes where you're really only changing the shutter speed or aperture, and it's still doing the rest automatically for you, so you can focus on whatever that one setting does, while also seeing what the smart camera tells you the other settings should be in those situations.

ghaff 4y ago
Though for moving objects, the ability to just fire off a rapid sequence on a digital camera can net you a shot which is at least incrementally better--or even the difference between a great shot and a dud. There were motor drives in film days of course but they weren't as fast as modern digital cameras and unless you were a pro, using them much got expensive in a hurry. Early on, digital did have a problem with shutter lag--Sony even had a series of ads touting the fact that their camera was faster than others--but it's not a problem now especially with better cameras.