Whatever happened to REAL photography?

[Herr Barnack]

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[tobey bilek]

BS. 36 MP Nikon blows 35 mm film out of the water. 10 MP Leica M8 or Nikon D700 is very good and better than film.

 

The good enough concept applies. 4x5 was replaced by medium format. MF replaced by high MP DSLR and to a certain extent Leica digital. This has been going on forever.

 

I know of one 4x5 landscape guy who went to Nikon. He stitches 8 or 12 photos and is still famous.

 

What has not improved is quality. Certainly some is very fine by people who have mastered digital. But most is garbage as a photo, but technically ok. It is free so so why not fill the buffer and hope there is a good one.

 

As far as convenience, I did a shoot with AF and auto exposure flash. Pics were made that captured the moments at a kids Halloween party I never could have made with a Leica.

 

And talk of decisive moment, I had one with a M, viso, & 200 or 280 lens. It was a polo pony with all four feet off the ground, the player swinging the mallet so the shaft had a big curve in it, and the "ball" was in contact with the mallet head and compressed 50 %. 10 frames per sec on a pro DSLR will not guarantee that capture.

 

So if you like film and old cameras, they are still around but the process time will shut you out of many pro jobs. Publishers seem to favor speed over most anything.

 

Digital seems to have turned everyone into a photographer or so they think. I don`t see it myself, as all that was eliminated was learning how to put film in the camera.

 

And there is no cost saving for most people. For what a decent digi cam costs, + computer, + programs, etc, you can shoot a roll a day cheaper. If you were a pro, you could bill it out. Now they want retouching thrown in free.

[pgk]

The same thing that happened to REAL article writing by the look of it;).

[Herr Barnack]

...Digital seems to have turned everyone into a photographer or so they think. I don`t see it myself, as all that was eliminated was learning how to put film in the camera...

Several billion images are made every day with about half a billion uploaded online every day. That's a good thing for serious image makers; the vast majority of the images they exhibit or compete against are crap.

 

If a photographer is capable of producing high quality images - images with visual impact - the crap photos that are produced by the masses make high quality work look all that much better by comparison.

 

... Now they want retouching thrown in free.

...and people in hell want ice water.