One of my recent trips to my family home in India just changed my perception of photography. After digging some of the old findings I found my Vivitar Reel Camera. All the memory got refreshed of how photography has changed. In my lifetime I learned photography twice once in 2003-2006 in my bachelor and then again in 2011 and both were totally different.
2003 was the age when digital camera was at the dawn in India and only few people had digital DSLR and was mostly done on Fuji or Kodak Reel. I started doing my stuff on Vivitar camera with Fuji film. Then I learned digital photography on Canon 7D in 2011. Both are two different world in there own right.
While learning on reel camera there is minimal or no scope of making mistakes. Once you have it on reel you wont know the results until everything goes under processing and results come out, sometimes it might be weeks or months as reel has 36 pics and you might not click them all at once. So it thought me to be perfect at one shot rather than clicking infinite pics of any situation.
But when you learn on digital camera you can click and check pics at same time and best of all click any amount of pics you like. If you unsure then click 10 pics of same moment.
Technology has made life easy, on reel camera focussing was always a issue, now its all set point and click, hardly have seen any photographer with manual focus anymore. Now even you can check each focus just by zooming into the pic. On reel ISO meant changing reel whereas on digital it means just rotating some button and adjusting your ISO.
Best thing digital photography brought in is power of editing. On reel editing photos were played in dark rooms but digital photography made it available to everyone who can work on photoshop.
Although tools of photography such as camera, post processing equipment has changed but the basic of photography has remain same. At the end all we need is good picture.