While the proliferation of increasingly-capable camera-equipped smartphones has made photography much more accessible to the average person, it has also had the negative effect of allowing many photographers to neglect developing the skills they would have gained in the process of learning how to use an old-fashioned camera. To hone those skills, try putting all of your camera’s settings on manual, setting it to monochrome, and using a 50mm prime lens. This is probably the best simulation you can get of what it was like to use a 35mm camera. It’s a great way of developing your basic photography skills without needing a darkroom and chemicals.
Key Takeaways:
- A good practice method is to focus with “sneaker zoom,” that is, walking closer to the subject rather than letting the camera do the work for you.
- For black and white photography, try taking color images in RAW mode, then edit them to monochrome.
- An upside of the expense of film was that photographers would take more time to do things correctly.
“If you have a 50mm prime lens, that will better emulate what most of us had on those old 35mm film cameras before we could afford to buy a zoom.”
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