A few months ago, I bought a Nikon D40 digital SLR camera. While most modern digital SLR cameras can be operated in a point-and-shoot mode, I have endeavored to learn how to use the camera. I was completely unprepared for the quality and degrees of freedom that the SLR afforded me. It has almost no shutter delay compared to my old point-and-shoot. I can shoot in ambient light. I still don’t know what half of the settings do.
I take a lot of pictures. Most of them aren’t very good. But, each one is another chance at a good one. It is also more practice. Thank goodness it’s digital! I’d spend a small fortune developing the 1500-odd images I’ve taken so far. Taking this approach to life seems somewhat Edisonian and backwards (work smarter, not harder, as the saying goes). Try a lot of things (within reason). One of them just might work. If not, you’ll still learn something.
