From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   Jim Jackson wrote:   
   >  Modern digital sensors have way better low light   
   > performance than most films did  :-)   
      
   My first camera, oh, it was in the 1960s, was an East German all-metal 35mm   
   SLR, with this black 'leather-like' pigskin-like leatherette covering on   
   the heavy metal which was peeling off at the edges.   
      
   Manual everything!   
      
   It was an immersive experience adjusting every shot to the ISO, aperture,   
   and shutter speed by hand. You really *felt* every decision you made in the   
   final image.   
      
   Cellphone cameras no longer need such attention anymore, but they don't   
   give our grandkids that same tactile sense of crafting the exposure from   
   scratch.   
      
   They now craft their exposure using AI after the fact.   
      
   It's kind of like how cars changed, where we changed the points every year   
   and replaced the capacitor and checked the dwell & timing, and now, none of   
   that is needed for the life of the car.   
      
   I still mount and balance my own tires at home though, since I'm old school   
   (I use the cheap HF bead breaker, tire mounter & static balancing jigs).   
      
   Am I the only one left?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)