She also brings abstract social forces to life with a tactile vigor, offering a sensual sociology by way of births, weddings, family and workplace rituals, and the physical details of manual labor.

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Says he: "Armchair professors and bureaucrats who sit behind desks pushing a pencil all day can work until age 68 without any serious difficulty, " but manual workers are too worn out by physical labor to stay on the job that long.

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Overall, it's a logical system that stays faithful to how proper cameras work, and it's essential for creative control, but compared to physical dials it's still very tricky to hit good manual settings quickly or in response to changing conditions -- not least because the preview of the shot is obscured by all the dials and, well, there's just so much tapping.

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