Dead Technologies
Jul 27, 2014 16:28:41 #
danielb59 wrote:
Saw the following advice from the Atlanta Journal/... (show quote)
Streaming is fine until they jack the price up for using too much bandwidth.
I don't think DSLRs have to worry about cell phones and tablets.
Jul 27, 2014 16:37:21 #
Digital cameras ARE a dead technology. I think you should stop buying anything remotely associated with them. As a matter of fact I believe that you should just mail all of your dead technology to me. I will dispose of it properly.
Jul 27, 2014 16:48:28 #
Why do any of you care what some journalist, whose only camera is probably a cell phone, has to say about photographic technology? Or anything else, for that matter? I sure don't.
Jul 28, 2014 20:38:27 #
The next best thing will eventually come along. Film was and still is great. No one has to get a digital camera to enjoy the great pictures taken with film.
Mirrorless is catching on and Sony has the translucent mirror which allows it to remain stationary.
Mirrorless is catching on and Sony has the translucent mirror which allows it to remain stationary.
Jul 28, 2014 21:51:16 #
danielb59 wrote:
Saw the following advice from the Atlanta Journal/... (show quote)
Was it Mark Twain that said "Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated."
Jul 29, 2014 00:30:41 #
joer wrote:
Was it Mark Twain that said "Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated."
And even sucky obsolete technologies rarely go away. Never mind those that were actually good.
Jul 29, 2014 01:38:50 #
Racmanaz
Loc: Sunny Tucson!
What about this perspective?
http://connect.dpreview.com/post/8533710022/consumer-dslr-cameras-dead-in-5-years
http://connect.dpreview.com/post/8533710022/consumer-dslr-cameras-dead-in-5-years
Jul 29, 2014 02:23:54 #
Racmanaz wrote:
What about this perspective?
http://connect.dpreview.com/post/8533710022/consumer-dslr-cameras-dead-in-5-years
http://connect.dpreview.com/post/8533710022/consumer-dslr-cameras-dead-in-5-years
DSLR's may be on their way out, but I don't think it has all that much to do with smartphones as the article indicates. Certainly the rise of mirrorless cameras plays a role, and perhaps the rising cost of living as well. But the casual smartphone shooter who is primarily concerned with uploading images to Facebook and the more serious hobbyist photographer who invests in camera equipment are two very different types of consumers, not one and the same.
Jul 29, 2014 02:39:18 #
I don't know a single artistic medium or tool that has disappeared. Burnt wood and ochre earth were on cave walls and are still used by contemporary painters--charcoal for the sketch and ochre in the oil colors or acrylics.
I just pick the tool I want to use. I don't have to look cool.
I just pick the tool I want to use. I don't have to look cool.
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