Why people don’t use auto mode in SLR cameras?

It is outlandish that in times of plethora, we often choose not to exercise our selections. We guzzle without giving a thought to the future. We do stuff that make our lives as pleasurable as possible without a second peek at the byproducts of our lenience. It is simple to reason with ourselves that all of this is innate. It is, of course, in the personality of all beings to consume before we conserve.

Preservation, too, is a purely humans attribute. Animals do not preserve, in the way humans connote it. They basically live within a natural equilibrium, acquiring what is essential and furnishing what needs to be given. As humans, we tend to deem that we are a slash above other creatures in the evolutionary ladder, because we have bigger brains and produced religion and attitude, and because we can decide when to mate. This is innate. Nature, it appears, is not devoid of a sagacity of paradox.

Undeniably, nature boom on all things ironical and parody ambiguous. For example, the hardest metals are born from the liquids inside the hearts of the hottest flames. And, it is in the times of trials and tribulations, that heroes are born. Can elation exist without the familiarity of sorrow? Imagine war between India and Pakistan without harmony… or life without death. Scientists theories that life itself was born in the middle of uncongenial chemical soups, created by lava vents so deep in the sea that the water touching the molten rock cannot twinkle into vapor. However let us leave the phoenixes of the globe to their relevant ashes, and talk about photography.

It takes a life span of tolerance to become a well-known wildlife photographer.  As the great American Wildlife Photographer wrote in his autobiography that “Wildlife Photographers requires endurance and control “Nonetheless, the amount of a renowned photographer’s most illustrious work might not amount to a miniature, if you mull over the entire time the shutter remained open for those shots. Famous photographer Umesh Gogna during a workshop articulated that “In wildlife photography patience is very important. At many occasions photographers spent hours but could not able to get even one picture. I have spent lots of days and hours to get the best pictures of tiger in my kitty” I have seen photographers turn cameras costing lakhs of rupees into point-and-shoot toys. Like my classmate Saurabh Agrawal is planning to spent lots of rupees to buy the best point-and-shoot camera, spending that much he can get a good SLR too. But, what then, is an Auto mode for, if it is not to be used? When I started learning photography from a SLR camera, it was tuff because I thought if one can click pictures via auto mode then why to invest time and brain to think about aperture, shutter speed, mode….etc.  I once read that Dr. Salim Ali, legendary ornithologist and naturalist, got his photographs of birds with a cheap Agfa box camera, by moving very, very slowly… at the rate of an inch a minute. Same was the case with the prominent photographer Raghu Rai.

Still I am planning to buy my first SLR camera and getting rid of point-and-shoot toy. A startling quantity of things in our quest for creativity is coupled with the availability or unavailability of options.

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Prateek Pathak

Student

B.A in Media Studies

University of Allahabad