>I know we like to hearken back to the way we learned, but isn't it a
>bit like telling someone to buy an old car with carburetors and bad
>brakes because that is what most of us had?
IMO this is like D*S and WIND*WS (if you can understand this kinda geeky
comparison). It depends on what you want to achieve. If the 'young person'
already knows about exposure and fstops and the basic stuff it's a different
thing and I would also go straight for C*non or N*kon.
Otherwise it helped me a lot to learn how stuff works when I was typing the
commands 'manually' in D*S. If I had started out with WIND*WS (say 9* or so)
I had used only buttons and pictures. It does pretty much the same thing but
so abstractly that I would probably lack the background knowledge. There is
a slight difference in turning the aperture ring yourself or entering the
aperture through a jog dial while watching a display.
Just my $0.02.
Jochen
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