aellman Loc: Boston MA

I beg to differ on two counts. The 8mpx quality of my IPhone 5s loses no quality when uploaded to my computer. It is exactly the same. On your reference to vinyl records, there is a significant number of serious music buffs returning to them after realizing that an analog recording is superior to a digital recording, such as a CD, due to file compression. This trend has reinvigorated some small record stores.

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

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Hi, obeone,
A waning of the Thrill?
I did experience that briefly early in my digital career ( following fifty-two years of progress from paper negatives and DIY dry plates through a variety of films and formats and camera brands). After a couple of years shooting Jpegs and then raw I began to feel much as you've described...until I became aware that even with raw capture I had not begun to use my digital cameras to the full extent of their capabilities. And as soon as I began to routinely expose raw image files using the extra raw-accessible dynamic range almost every camera can deliver, and to once again spend my time concentrating on my subjects and on my accurately pre-visualized images thereof that the waning stopped! The malaise was quickly replaced with a re-birth of the absorbing, joyful exhilaration that photography had provided to me throughout that initial half century-plus of my journey.

For me, anyway, the answer lay in awareness of how routinely to utilize the extra, unadvertised raw-accessible dynamic range that every one of my digital camera has been proven to have in that razzle-dazzle sensor that accounted for half to 2/3 of the price that I had paid for each camera body!

That awareness has permitted me far more photographic creative latitude than I had theretofore ever experienced...and it was as if the journey had begun anew!

And photography colleagues wonder why I have become such an eager, evangelical proselytizer of the good news of the practice of "Expose Beyond the Right" (EBTR). It can, for the photographer in the common "slump" of "photographer's block" be a life-changing experience, from which, as a friend has said "you'll never look back !"

Enthusiastique ?
Moi ?
Yeah, just a little!

Dave in SD

Paul in CT Loc: Watertown, CT

I guess for me the thrill isn't in the gear (although it's fun to get new toys) or film v digital, or post processing or new techniques.

It's about showing another person (and maybe yourself) the beauty and truth in our world. Causing an emotional reaction (happy, sad, awe, angry, etc.) is what art is about. Photography is not different than painting, music, dance.

Like love, our ability to create is a gift from God and it only exists when we share it.

Sorry if I sound philosophical or sentimental.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

minor disagreement
vinyl sounds different because of the repro method, and not all digital sounds bad, mainly the awful MP3 and its relatives most are used to today. The HD digital formats sound great. And I read of a method to process them so they sound just like vinyl.
It doesn't do me much good. My tinnitus and other hearing tone loss limit me to using noise canceling head phones or LOUD to hear the music well. And I don't like loud, it makes the tinnitus worse.

Jim Bob

When digital is mastered right, vinyl doen't come close.

CLP1943 Loc: Wisconsin

Just what does it mean "to chimp" ?

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

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Having a goal to communicate something is a HUGE motivator for me to be creative.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

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I have many original works on vinyl and subsequent re-releases on CD. I can't recall any of them sounding better on vinyl.

If you ever have a chance, listen to studio masters recorded at 96 KHz sampling rates. They beat the pants off the best analog tape I ever used. There is no perceivable tape hiss, wow, flutter, or other analog discrepancies.

Digital technology can record FAR more than most adults over the age of 25 can hear. By my age, 60, most have lost the ability to hear well at frequencies above 12 KHz. In my teens, I could hear (sense, really) tones up to 22 KHz. So all this nonsense about vinyl sounding better is silly. I don't miss the snap, crackle, pop of dust, scratches, and surface imperfections.

PaulR

The thrill is still there....my easel is still my viewfinder...the wonders of shape form and symmetry in God's creation....humans and flowers and landscapes....and so many other things that captivate me....I just can't stop snapping the shutter...and then painting them just like I want them in Lightroom....or allowing the Master Artist of the Universe to show me His great talents when he paints His creation with glorious light....my friend there is no end to it....no boredom ever.....open your eyes it's all there just for you....forget everyone else....they can't see what you see....its your world not there's...you are the master of it....enjoy it....go Film..digital too.

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

To look at your picture on your lcd display right after you take it to see if it came out OK. Usually you would also magnify the pic on the lcd to check for focus, noise, etc. By chimping, you can decide if you got the shot you thought you did, or need to retake it. People using film can't chimp because the film has to be processed. If their shots down't come out they are out of luck.
Bob

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

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Nice to agree with you on something! :-D :-D :lol:

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

Sorry you have to deal with those things. Totally agree on good digital and also the processing. Take care!

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

Yes!!!!

I miss the album art and all of those things, but if you look at the blu-ray packaging of some of David Gilmour's and Pink Floyd's last albums you can understand mastery of a medium. And yes, they offer vinyl for those that want it.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

Oook?

Kuzano

And furthermore... no chimping for 4-6 hours, or try 10 days... before you look at your images. And No RAW and No PP.