Let us now praise crappy cameras

Mainecoonmaniac · Feb 6, 2015

http://hyperallergic.com/179872/let-us-now-praise-crappy-cameras/

Ken Nadvornick · Feb 6, 2015

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

Let us now craze puppy cameras

Ken

Sirius Glass · Feb 6, 2015

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.

Mainecoonmaniac · Feb 6, 2015

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

Dyslexic?

benjiboy · Feb 6, 2015

Mainecoonmaniac said:
Dyslexic?

I used to know a dyslectic pimp who bought a warehouse

cliveh · Feb 6, 2015

Mainecoonmaniac said:
http://hyperallergic.com/179872/let-us-now-praise-crappy-cameras/

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.

Mainecoonmaniac · Feb 6, 2015

Well...

benjiboy said:
I used to know a dyslectic pimp who bought a warehouse

As long it was full of working women, why not?

snapguy · Feb 6, 2015

not

It's not the box, it is the eye and the brain.

Ken Nadvornick · Feb 6, 2015

Mainecoonmaniac said:
Dyslexic?

Or sleep deprived. Or both...

So were the cameras crazed? Or the puppies crazed?

:eek:

Ken

Ken Nadvornick · Feb 6, 2015

benjiboy said:
I used to know a dyslectic pimp who bought a warehouse

heespharm · Feb 6, 2015

Puppy cameras???

Or like this

(Neither pic is mine)

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bvy · Feb 6, 2015

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.

"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.

blockend · Feb 7, 2015

Some beautiful photos in the link.

David Brown · Feb 8, 2015

I did a blog post based on this article:
https://silverdarkroom.wordpress.com/2015/02/08/let-us-now-praise-crappy-cameras/

bvy · Feb 8, 2015

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.

Richard S. (rich815) · Feb 8, 2015

David Brown said:
I did a blog post based on this article:
https://silverdarkroom.wordpress.com/2015/02/08/let-us-now-praise-crappy-cameras/

Good write up and commentary David.

fotch · Feb 8, 2015

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.

It also eliminates blaming the camera for your crappy images. Maybe you can blame your better half?

removedacct1 · Feb 8, 2015

Richard Sintchak (rich815) said:
Good write up and commentary David.

+1

Moopheus · Feb 8, 2015

snapguy said:
It's not the box, it is the eye and the brain.

Judging by my experience with my Agfa Clack, sometimes it is the box.

blockend · Feb 8, 2015

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.

blansky · Feb 9, 2015

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.

Richard S. (rich815) · Feb 9, 2015

blansky said:
Cameras are just tools.

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

But that's a different hobby or discipline than photography.

Photography is using them to transfer what's in your mind onto a physical plane to give it life.

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

They're all fucking better.

When I first read this I thought it said: "Cameras are just tools. (As) are people who use them..."

Let us now praise crappy cameras

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