Maybe, we're just getting old.
I know the world's leader in fisheye infrared photohraphy and it is not slackercruser...but then the fellow I know does not use infrared flash, so there is room on the top.“I do highest level, in-your-face candid work, and am the world leader in circular fisheye and infrared flash street photography” Wow, you must be legendary. Intergalactic, also?
Painters still use paint, guys. Photography has been with us for less than a couple centuries...constantly changing the entire time, constantly evolving. Pick your tools and use them.
I know the world's leader in fisheye infrared photohraphy and it is not slackercruser...but then the fellow I know does not use infrared flash, so there is room on the top.
.... he's driving it because there is nothing more fun than driving a simple low powered "slug bug" you can fix yourself ( with a book " ... for the complete idiot " ) that gets you from point a to point b and puts a smile on peoples faces as you vroom by them. its the same sort of thing. chemical photography is just puttering along the same way, with out a book called " how to make photographs for the complete idiot"...
Yes!It is not for me to wonder. Just happy that I can still get out with my large format camera with loaded film holders.
chemical photography is just puttering along the same way, with out a book called " how to make photographs for the complete idiot"...
One of the features of the postmodern, if I remember my notes correctly, was simultaneity of past and present rather than the new replacing the old, which had been the convention. The web has been one of the enablers of pluralism, connecting enthusiasts for the arcane and forgotten through cutting edge technology. Ironically the very digital technology that killed the film camera in the mainstream, was the one that maintains it in the margins. Flatbed scanners and DSLR negative conversion, with web scans for the remaining darkroom printers. A language shared through time zones and culture.
As I steeped myself in a new off-camera flash system yesterday, I pondered the fact that exhausting its functions would have comprised a skilled job for someone 50 years previously. Now we're expected to accommodate its numerous possibilities between tea and supper. The biologist Rupert Sheldrake proposed the idea of "morphic resonance", the notion of inherited and evolving memory. Thus, the birth pangs of a new idea, a crystalline form, a skateboard trick, rats avoiding a new poison become unremarkable and infants delve into computer programmes without inhibition.
Speak for yourself.Yes. Plus a bunch of mostly-old-men (Photrio) injects a lot of ignorance and attitude into a process that's arguably far ahead in other places.
He could buy a good used car. My gently used 2010 Honda CRV has 111,000 miles on it, runs like a top, and doesn't have anything touch screen on it. It did take me a minute to figure out how to reset my clock this weekend though. Kind of like buying an old film camera.OT: My dad (he's 78) is shopping for a new car. He is not a happy shopper. One of the brands offers, if you buy their car, to provide a free class at the dealership to teach you how to use the myriad of features available on the dash.
I, the interplanetary leader in telephoto images of crustaceans, agree with the OP. We're headed in the mirrorless direction, for reasons of economy and quality.
I've been working with mirrorless cameras since 1993. Ones a 4x5, the other's an 8x10.
He could buy a good used car. My gently used 2010 Honda CRV has 111,000 miles on it, runs like a top, and doesn't have anything touch screen on it. It did take me a minute to figure out how to reset my clock this weekend though. Kind of like buying an old film camera.
Speak for yourself.
Yes!
It is my own evolution as a photographer I am most worried about. Besides, it is the only part of the equation I have any control over.
He could buy a good used car. My gently used 2010 Honda CRV has 111,000 miles on it, runs like a top, and doesn't have anything touch screen on it. It did take me a minute to figure out how to reset my clock this weekend though. Kind of like buying an old film camera.
The new technology is only "bad" if you are making your living doing wedding photography.
The reasons people in the past didn't take multiple photos at weddings were technology related. The need for flash, limited cropping options, color temperature issues, etc. Smart phones with high ISO cameras and automatic settings, instant cropping and sharing get around many of those limitations. In addition, many people just want a memento of the event, not an expensive professional print. It is the obligation of the photographer to use his expertise to transcend the images taken by wedding guests. Those who can do so will profit, those who can't will not.
A better way of looking at evolution is not that organisms change to meet changing conditions, but that some organisms were lucky to already have the adaptations needed to survive the changes in the environment. Otherwise, organisms would not adapt fast enough to survive the changing enviroment.Interesting use of "evolution." IMO that's not the same as "change." Darwin said something about survival of species...which entails constant change as well as death of some things that can't change. The "best" doesn't necessarily survive or dominate. Me, I miss certain films and I mourn the survival of certain photographic aspirations.
The post-modern philosopher Jacques Derrida coined the term "hauntology". I'm not an instinctive post-modernist, but he was definitely on to something. Basically it's the sense that something is neither dead nor alive but continues in a kind of deferred state. In a photographic context someone might recall APS film, the advertising, the promise it held, the design of the cameras. Although the film format has been consigned to history and the cameras are mostly paperweights, the idea of APS lives on as a thing. The same is true of so much technology, even quite recent objects which have been superseded too rapidly for our minds to make sense of them, and for reasons over which we have no control. Compact audio discs, tape camcorders, old computer games, once fashionable sports shoes, the music heroes of our youth still have a gravity that won't be dismissed by time or commercial redundancy.
Digital cameras are suffering from this continued cycle of updating, to the point where Canon's CEO suggests the consumer digital camera may be in its death throes. This is partly because there's little perceivable difference between an image taken on a 10mp camera from 2006 and a 24 or 42mp camera from 2019 in normal lighting, and partly a weariness with the same relentless hyperbole at their launch. We have become jaded at the unfulfilled promise of more, faster, better, newer, and seek something that won't have disappeared between reading the brochure and mastering the menus.
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