So tired of the iPhone culture

[Prof_Pixel]

Really? Ever hang out with an iPhone owner? They're pretty hard to communicate with.

They ARE communicating with each other - just not in ways that most of us understand or appreciate.

 

[Prof_Pixel]

I've been seeing people don't equate taking pictures with making photographs anymore. For many, it's a proof you were there and you had fun.... It's more of a documentation thing. Not for them, it's for others to see and comment on social networking site..... for next 10 minutes or so. Then it's all forgotten.

I consider there are two major categories of consumer photos: memory photos of important events (weddings, etc) and 'throw-away' photos designed to share a 'moment of time' (what I'm having for lunch, etc). I don't have any problem with people shooting 'throw-away' photos as a form of instant communications.

 

[munz6869]

I have an iphone AND a preponderance of strange olde worlde cameras. There, I've said it.

The iphone is truly a wondrous object, that far surpasses the technology Dick Tracy could wear on his arm, and is useful in so many ways. (phone, note taker, encyclopaedia, light meter, timer, map, compass, folio, radio, newspaper, etc etc etc). Like ANY tool, some folks use them badly, some folks use them well. In a few years, what seems strange and rude now will be commonplace or obsolete.

Marc!

 

[David Lyga]

If someone asked me why I was using a film camera I would simply state that I am used to doing that. I process my own film and I like the results. I would also state that I own 6000 classical music LPs and that did not cost me a fortune because in Philadelphia, despite holding onto a world class Orchestra, the people who visit thrift stores despise classical music and I got it all for cheap over the decades. A similar collection in CDs would have bankrupted me long ago.

I would finish by saying, without apology, that matured technologies have all the bugs ironed out. And then finalize with "if your camera broke would you stand a good chance of being able to fix it yourself?"

No angst, no animus, just common sense. - David Lyga

 

[cliveh]

I don't plan on ever owning a phone which doesn't connect to the telephone exchange via a wire coming into my house.


Steve.

Steve, mobiles are handy if your car breaks down or you lose the wife in Tesco's.

 

[BradS]

You probably look approachable. You also look like you are enjoying what you are doing. You are also doing things others don't do much anymore. People are curious. Try looking like you are working and you really aren't enjoying it.

I've been seeing people don't equate taking pictures with making photographs anymore. For many, it's a proof you were there and you had fun.... It's more of a documentation thing. Not for them, it's for others to see and comment on social networking site..... for next 10 minutes or so. Then it's all forgotten.

I'm struck by the irony...I'm mostly doing the same thing except that, I'll photograph my memory with a Bronica 645, a 4x5 Crown Graphic or an Ilford Pinhole and post a traditional B&W photo (well, a digital representation of one anyway) to my on-line social media page.

 

[blansky]

Why can't people just leave me the F&%^$ alone?...

Why don't you get a T-shirt that says that?

Problem solved.

 

[BradS]

Why don't you get a T-shirt that says that?

Problem solved.

Good idea....!!! I think I might.

 

[DSLR]

phone, note taker, encyclopaedia, light meter, timer, map, compass, folio, radio, newspaper, etc etc etc

I already have that and it costs $0/month.

Why don't you get a T-shirt that says that?

Problem solved.

That would be a great T-shirt, but it would be counterproductive lol.

 

[BetterSense]

What's worse is being turned away from an event because you have a camera, while everyone with smart phones walk right in.

 

[Prof_Pixel]

What's worse is being turned away from an event because you have a camera, while everyone with smart phones walk right in.

That says something about the promoters concern about relative image quality, doesn't it.

 

[ToddB]

Boy.. that sounds familier.. I get that all the time too. Most of time I'm happy to explain and show off my Rollei to people and explain what it does. And yes.. you can still get film, not at at Walgreens , but on-line. It's wierd but any film camera that we sport out in public is like we have a never before seen camera, cause eveyone has a android or Iphone. I was at the Apple store store here in Albq. The sales clerk asked me first thing on what a beautiful camera it was and ask those very same questions. I was happy to explain. the roles were reversed meaning I felt like was the salesman and he was the customer. I tried to ask question about Ipad Mini, but the conversation keeped going back to Rollei.. I had about three clerks around me just staring at it and asking question. There was one guy that said when he lived in NY city there were "Hipsters" that carried them around but really sucked at taking pictures with them. I asked.. "So they were more like a fashion accessory"? He said "Yes". So yhea... I would consider us the film shooters a cut above the Norm from people that are using cell phone camera.

ToddB

 

[ToddB]

I should add . The worst question was I was asked is if my TLR was a 3-D camera. Really???

ToddB

 

[Prof_Pixel]

I should add . The worst question was I was asked is if my TLR was a 3-D camera. Really???

ToddB

Well, it DOES have two lenses. (I have see stereo pair images that are 'over and under'.)

 

[NedL]

We've had some bad weather here lately, and on Monday we finally had a nice day. In the hour right before sunset ( so early at 5PM!) it was glorious and the air was crystal clear. Everything was green and glowing and shining from all the recent rains. I went to a local park to have a walk, and saw a couple walking. The fellow had his head bent into his phone and I watched him walk a quarter mile or so that way.... he had no idea where he was or what was around him... utterly and completely oblivious. The expression on his face looked just like somebody watching TV ( for all I know, maybe that's what he was doing! )

I didn't have any particular reaction, except it made me feel sad.

I have a little 6x9 folder that I really like to carry around with me. I've had a lot of people ask me about it, but I think every one has said something like "that looks like fun". Always positive and friendly. I'm not sure I'd know how to respond if someone asked "why would you want to do that"... I guess I'd just think they were as oblivious as the phone-headed fellow and probably shrug them off.

 

[ToddB]

"why would you want to do that"...

Because it's Real!!!

ToddB

 

[Sirius Glass]

Don't look at me! I have a dumb cell phone. No camera, no text messaging, no internet capability.

 

[Steve Smith]

Steve, mobiles are handy if your car breaks down or you lose the wife in Tesco's.

If my car breaks down I will borrow someone else's phone. Everyone has one now you know!

And as for the second bit...!


Steve.

 

[AndreasT]

Well I have no mobile phone and will never have one. To carry that little addictive drug around with me all the time. I do not see the point. I just love the looks on peoples faces when they want my mobile number and I don't have one. You are a oddity and either they stone you or love you.
Funny isn't it when you go to a concert and are not allowed to take in a camera and every second person starts filmen holding up there little new love blocking the view and missing the concert.
What I find intressting when photographing large format the reactions where sometimes they are pain and sometimes entertaining. Often I have older guys coming up to me asking if I use glass plates and they are disappointed when I say "No it's film".

 

[AndreasT]

If my car breaks down I will borrow someone else's phone. Everyone has one now you know!

And as for the second bit...!


Steve.

Well often I hear mobile phones can save lives. Just to see how many people drive cars concentrating on there phone calls. I don't know?

 

[Steve Smith]

Well I have no mobile phone and will never have one.

Excellent. Another member of the club.

I do sometimes pretend that my Weston Master III is a phone though... just to annoy people.


Steve.

 

[BradS]

....I do sometimes pretend that my Weston Master III is a phone though... just to annoy people.
Steve.

I gotta try that.






(disclaimer: I do have a plain vanilla cell phone - which people give me guff about too... "why don't you get an iPhone?").

 

[munz6869]

I have been asked if my Sekonic meter is a phone also. Then again, using a Meopta TLR in a park once, an onlooker was astonished they 'had such bright LCD displays back then'....

Marc!

 

[AndreasT]

Excellent. Another member of the club.

I do sometimes pretend that my Weston Master III is a phone though... just to annoy people.


Steve.

This could nearly be a reason to start a new APUG Group

 

[lxdude]

Well I have no mobile phone and will never have one. To carry that little addictive drug around with me all the time. I do not see the point.

Isn't it weird that when people only had landlines they would screen their calls on the answering machine, but with cell phones they always answer, even in the middle of a face-to-face conversation?

I used have a cell phone. I lost it and didn't replace it. Sweet freedom!