M-D question

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What I was trying to point out in my succinct way is that it is possible to learn and improve through immediate feedback faster than <wait till you get home> speed.

 

Learning is a process of moving working memory into long term memory and for myself sitting down at the computer and evaluating the pictures

in edit mode allows more time for reflection and that enhances the process for me. Chimping tells me if I was way off but the correction is so fast

that I tend to accept the improved exposure or framing without any deep reflection upon it.

 

I must say that I review most of the pictures within 12 hours so I am able to remember the conditions of the exposure and how I might remedy it. In the old 

film days it might have been a week or a month between exposure and getting the film developed ... if the roll was not all exposed. At that 

point my settings and thoughts were gone as I did not have the routine of writing each exposure in a journal. I have gone to using a calibrated to camera light meter

... usually for a reading in the locations present light ... then full manual for the camera. In weird lighting I can fall back to a spot meter from the external light meter

if I really think I might miss the exposure.

 

I use LR with a mini Retina iPad and the camera connection kit when traveling a distance from home ... two reasons ... I can edit and review in the

off time when I am bored and more importantly it constitutes a backup for the SD card. On a week trip I will use a SD card for one day ... writing all

the DNGs to the iPad in the evening. The card is then stored separately from the iPad and a new SD is used the next day ... repeated each day of

the trip. Should I experience a corrupted SD card and loss of pictures it would only affect the present day of shooting ... not the whole trip. And

if the card fails at home when I am downloading pictures to the computer ... hopefully the DNGs I archived each evening will still be extant. Not 

a guarantee but might save some grief.

 

I doubt that M-D in camera formatting of the SD card would be for me doable as there is no way to check the card afterward ... until you try to 

load pictures ... only if the camera would hang an not write would there be any indication. At least in computer with SD Formatter you get a confirmation

after the format when the icon of the card is mounted ... and you can inspect it. If the format fails the program notifies you and usually a remount and retry

is successful.

 

Bob

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[Morry]

My decision not to rely on LCD when shooting street has been made after so many years of looking at LCD playback/histogram after every shot.

 

After all the way is just M7 in digital and that seems to be what I was looking for, now I realize.

 

I still own M7 by the way, but time is just not enough for film developing nowadays.

 

 

 

 

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[nikau]

What I was trying to point out in my succinct way is that it is possible to learn and improve through immediate feedback faster than <wait till you get home> speed.

 

 

That's a good and valid point. It's why, when film ruled, Hasselblad and various other camera users liked to shoot a Polaroid test or two. I find the M-D makes me think more about the technical side of what Im doing, rather than just shoot away, then check what I've just done. It's quite enjoyable working this way but it's not for every occasion. I often use one of my other cameras with a screen and have no problem admitting that, for me, the M-D is an indulgence.