I feel like we're talking cross-purposes here... I thought you were saying that modern colour neg is difficult to learn basic photography with as it's too forgiving. plus if you get it with a standard digital minilab process and print, the auto-adjustment makes it very difficult to learn anything from the prints. so, I get that you can scan and adjust to get a desired image, I was just saying that you can still learn about simple 'correct' exposure from looking at negs...
I feel like we're talking cross-purposes here... I thought you were saying that modern colour neg is difficult to learn basic photography with as it's too forgiving. plus if you get it with a standard digital minilab process and print, the auto-adjustment makes it very difficult to learn anything from the prints. so, I get that you can scan and adjust to get a desired image, I was just saying that you can still learn about simple 'correct' exposure from looking at negs...