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Could it not be the other way around? Modern camera's surely are far more complicated than that Hasselblad, and offer a magnitude more options to fine-tune befo
by Joeri 14y ago
Could it not be the other way around? Modern camera's surely are far more complicated than that Hasselblad, and offer a magnitude more options to fine-tune before taking a picture. To my knowledge though, they don't have fewer abilities for manual control. It is fair to say that the cognitive overhead of understanding what a modern camera will do when you take the picture is much greater than that of the old camera.
Perhaps you can take great pictures with that Hasselblad because you understand exactly what it does and how it does it?
- wtallis 14y agoIf you know what you want, you have to guess at how to get the automatic device to give you that result, and you have to look at the result to see if the device correctly inferred what you want. That feedback loop where you reverse-engineer someone else's guess at your workflow produces more cognitive load than a dozen knobs with deterministic and predictable effects. Being able to eliminate the feedback loop is a huge win, and is why keyboard-based interfaces can still be more productive than GUIs where you have to look to make sure the button is where you expect it and the cursor is where you want it.