I'm glad I asked my question! The response, information and discussion I've gotten from this thread has been super helpful! Thank you everyone.
Hope you got something out of it, but as I implied in my initial post, it's all rather basic.
Here's what I just posted in another thread...
BTW, these straightforward matters are traditionally "sliced and diced" by self-appointed experts who love to construct complex models to mask their ignorance. There's really not much to it once you understand the details.
-Highly applicable here as well.
How do you know a self-appointed expert from a truly knowledgeable guy?
Examples of ignorance would help.
Well
Not well.
, there's hardly any deep knowledge required to adjust the settings on a camera,
I don't see any exposure of deep knowledge in this thread, just basic and necessary facts.
yet there are five pages of blathering on the subject.
That's because a lot of things were wrong, and explanations were due.
The stuff that I learned in a minute or two, (some 50 years ago) has stood the test of time.
Happy that you need so little.
I've commented before that an intelligent being from outer space might approach a camera with some trepidation, but would most likely try setting the parameters in the mid positions as an experiment. On my old film camera, that would be f/8 and 1/125s, which wouldn't be too far off.
That's water with no substance.
I've asked you two direct questions:
How do you know a self-appointed expert from a truly knowledgeable guy?
Examples of ignorance would help.
How about: "Most of your contributions".
Ha! Gotcha.
Thanks for proving your ignorance in these matters.
Strange that I've managed for 50+ years without knowing about "these matters" that have nothing to do with photography.
That's some enraged ego. You know nothing of those matters, but you've decided that they have nothing to do with photography while those who know a bit are ignorant.
Not going to read your replies.
Your petulant attitude ensures that you won't be able to resist taking a peek.
Once the Aperture and SS settings are mastered (2 minutes),
If it really takes 2 minutes to 'master' shutter and aperture, why do we get so many queries about them here. Are all those people stupid?
That's possible. Maybe they are confused by your endless posts on the subject?
When they start a thread asking questions I haven't made a post so your theory must be incorrect. In any case, my posts are only 'confusing' to people who have faulty prior knowledge and are unable to rid themselves of false preconceptions. That, thankfully, doesn't apply to beginners, just some of the self-appointed experts who hang around this forum misinforming people, mostly not for any bad motive, just because they don't know any better. And my posts aren't 'endless', each one comes to an end, at some stage.
My experience is that often, people who think that hard to grasp concepts are trivial really haven't grasped them at all, they've done a bit of memorising a few facts about them, which is as close as they ever get to 'mastering' anything.
So, you really do think that the concepts are hard to grasp?
I don't think they are trivial. Part of the evidence is that it took some very clever people a lot of work and effort to work it all out. Look up Hurter and Driffield. Or you could look at the history of f-number. It was not so obvious that it popped up straight away at the dawn of photography. In fact it wasn't until 1895 - 75 years after the inception of photography - that things settled down to the f-number as being the most useful way of expressing aperture.
Also there is the amount of effort that very serious authors have had to put into explaining it. For instance, always a good read is this Kodak guide:
https://www.kodak.com/uploadedfiles...en_motion_education_sensitometry_workbook.pdf
I don't think they would have bothered if the whole thing was trivial. As I said before, there is a tendency for many people to think that something they have memorised but not understood is 'trivial'.
Alternatives: a piece of black tape over the code or using exposure compensation.
