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01/07/2011 09:09:51 PM · #1 |
We are in the digital age, where everything is measured in pixels. And there lies the rub.
If you took the best digicam on the market, took a shot and then blew it up to the size of your living-room wall, all you would see is those dreaded pixels!
Yet if you took the same image on an Olympus OM10 (five quid from Oxfam!!!) you would get a perfect picture, full resolution, mural-sized.
This is because the old manual cameras took genuine photographic images, down to the micro-organism. The modern robots are digital images; they are not true. They are in effect toons!
The same failure of digital technology is also coming home to roost as we are now constantly grappling with HD home equipment.
As I said, funny thing technology! The more imperfect, second-rate something becomes, the more obsessed we become with blowing our entire wealth in it.
Message edited by author 2011-01-07 21:12:23. |
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01/07/2011 09:38:17 PM · #2 |
Jesus, not this again. If you want to shoot film, do it. Don't preach about how the rest of us are doing it wrong.
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01/07/2011 09:46:24 PM · #3 |
| I'd much rather have to deal with pixels to have the digital editing capabilities, rather then shooting film and deal with the whole darkroom process. Theres a reason why digital has taken over. |
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01/07/2011 10:22:11 PM · #4 |
Here come the Dreaded Pixels to plaster my walls, drink my booze, eat my ratatouille and sleep in my bed. But wait! They are nothing but toons, Say, didn't Michaelangelo work with toons? Say, what about mosaics?
Actually it is fun to think about. Even more fun to wonder if there mayn't be something profound in blowing money on the exponential explosion of second raters. Or possibly it is the other way around: the more money we put into a market the worse the market gets? A lot like gambling? |
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01/07/2011 10:26:57 PM · #5 |
With film, I took pictures willy-nilly and found I got crap for results. Maybe 5 out of 36 shots. I finally got it from my wife when I'd spend $2 on a roll, $12 to develop it and only get 5 keepers.
Now with digital, I mostly shoot in manual mode with no problems. I can easily check the histogram to see if I have good settings. Only when I'm feeling lazy do I shoot in Av mode.
Now I just wish there was a "wife" setting. I just tell her to put it on "P" when she picks up my camera. Of course, I forget that it's set on 3200ISO from the previous night's shooting.
The only concern I would have is with longevity of digital. In 50 years, will my grand children be able to read a photoshop file? Of course, there are digital-to-slide companies out there. |
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