Watched my buddy try to cut a chain link fence with a bargain bin tool, the thing practically exploded. He ended up at the hardware store that same afternoon.

Seriously, eighty bucks for that?

What, you've never brought your mom to a job interview?

Remember trying to add a MIDI file that auto-played some terrible song from a band you liked... and the whole page layout would break if someone visited on Netscape. @murphy.tessa is right about that lawless feeling, but was it really better? I mean, you could actually find someone's page by guessing their AOL screen name and a tilde. Now you need ten apps and a login just to see a basic profile.

Man I totally get that, I felt the same way for years. But then I tried shooting from a really dark site and the difference was insane. Those auto settings just can't pull out the faint stuff that dark frames kill, like thermal noise and amp glow. It's not just regular noise you can fix later, it's like a whole different kind of mess. Once I saw the clean data I could start with, it completely changed how I process everything.