The Discovery of Photography

[KenS]

Digital photography is dead!

NO...it is NOT..
It's just 'sleeping' until the digi-doers' find that they cannot 'really compete' with large format caneras and sheet film (i.e. no swings/tilts when required

Ken (aka "Grumpy)

 

[removed account4]

I would suggest that photography was very much a discovery through experimentation, rather than an invention.

couldn't agree more !

 

[Kino]

 

[Noisegate]

I ask the question as technological advancement may not always be chronological in order and would be interested on the thoughts of others about this question.

Do you have an example of this?

 

[Vaughn]

I would say that invention is creative discovery.

 

[cliveh]

Do you have an example of this?

Building the great pyramids without any machinery. Camera mechanical design better than digital operation to capture an image.

 

[cliveh]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56377567

 

[Vaughn]

Preety cool...

 

[removed account4]

Building the great pyramids without any machinery. Camera mechanical design better than digital operation to capture an image.

IDK cliveh
they THINK the great pyramids were made without any machinery but they have no idea
this guy built his whole compound without "modern machinery". I think with just a block and tackle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle