Re: Best Option for Budget DSLR Upgrade

Dudley Hanks wrote:
> jimkramer wrote 
>
>> Now you could become totally deranged and use your digital camera to 
>> do***ent your film shooting. :-)
> 
> Hey, I like that one.  The next time I take out the old EOS film camera
I'll 
> use the A720 to take a picture of all my settings on the film shots. 
Sort 
> of like film EXIF...

You could. Seriously. Consider the digital as the test polaroid, then 
bring in the film camera for the final shot once the exposure & lighting 
is decided. Or bring a film body along to duplicate shots for slides :-)

> Just kidding...
> 
> I guess it all depends on how one does things.


> With film, I use a lot of time thinking about what is going to happen
when I 
> click the shutter, and the bulk of my mental effort goes into applying
past 
> experience to the shot at hand.  With digital, the mental process is 
> different.  It is more evaluating the shots one has taken, and using the

> feedback to juggle things around in order to improve upon it.  The
memory 
> gets used less, but one's analytical abilities gets used more.

This sounds right.