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Let us now praise crappy cameras

Good lord. My eyes quickly scanned down the Today's Posts page and thought they read...

Let us now craze puppy cameras



Ken
 
No thank you. I will pass. I used enough of them when I was a teenager since I could afford no better. Best to be left unremembered.
 
Are you like me?

Ken Nadvornick said:
Good lord. My eyes quickly scanned down the Today's Posts page and thought they read...

Let us now craze puppy cameras



Ken
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Dyslexic?
 
Puppy cameras???



Or like this




(Neither pic is mine)



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cliveh said:
You can make a crappy image from a crappy camera and you can also make a crappy image from a good camera. But at least with a good camera you have the option of how crappy or not you want your image to be.
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"Crappy" is a gimmick. I don't think of my Holga as taking crappy images. And I've never taken an image with it that made me say, I wish I had used a better camera.

I was in that show for two years straight. The one year I sit out, they finally get some good press.
 
A tack sharp lens doesn't make a photograph good, it makes it sharp. I get images that I like from cameras that are well built and cameras that are poorly built. It's interesting to talk about but of little consequence. I'm not much interested in what paintbrushes Van Gogh used.
 
cliveh said:
You can make a crappy image from a crappy camera and you can also make a crappy image from a good camera. But at least with a good camera you have the option of how crappy or not you want your image to be.
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It also eliminates blaming the camera for your crappy images. Maybe you can blame your better half?
 
Pictorialism or realism, the age old debate. What's for sure is the industry pushes lenses that cost £8000 most people couldn't tell from an £800 lens, and quite likely from an £80 lens. If crappy cameras are a rejection of King's New Clothes photography, I'm all for it.
 
Cameras are just tools.

There are people who appreciate them, idolize them, fetishize them, and collect them.

But that's a different hobby or discipline than photography where people use them.

Photography is about manipulating them to transfer what's in your mind onto a physical plane, giving the vision life.

Debating about cameras is like debating about which breast size is better.

They're all fucking better.
 
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When I first read this I thought it said: "Cameras are just tools. (As) are people who use them..."
 
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