Both Bryce and RML are onto something. On the one hand, the "faster" the camera in-hand, the more likely one's "percentage" is to go down; the camera with the slower frame-rate more-or-less forces you to slow down the thought process a bit. Then, too, what you might have regarded in a moment's hasty judgement as "so-so" just might, given time, become something quite special. This is why I'm leery of the "go/no-go" nature of digital capture; it's all too easy to pitch an image in the heat of the moment (such as running out of/low on card storage space in the field...unless you have the cash for a fistful of 4GB cards, you know what I'm talking about). You can shuffle through images on that lil' screen and decide what to pitch right there and then, but have you ever tossed something that made you think, a few seconds later, "§#!‡, I shouldn't have done that!"? At least a few of my most-cherished images were things I wouldn't have given a second thoought to shortly after viewing the contact sheet or proof. (Ah, but I was so much older then...)
- Barrett
