E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
Perhaps you are overthinking the state of the art and are too preoccupied with gear.
Electronic imaging has been around for a very long time in the form and television production of electronic newsgathering and television production. I'm surprised that it did not relace film long ago. It was just a matter of time for it to cause a transition into still photograhy combined with computer-driven technology.
No doubt the technology in cameras, optics and image processing but the elements of artistic photographers have not changed at all. as advanced into a work of complex technology. It is still all about composition, lighting, use of light and the artistic or journalistic expression and creativity of the photograher. The rest is a bunch of technobabble. The technology is there to make things more convenient and accessible and you can use as much or as little of it as you need or want. All cameras all have a lens, an aperture a shutter and a focusing mechanism and if you know how to control that thing and how they interphase with each other, you are good to go.
You no longer need the stock foil of different characteristics- speed, colour palette, grain structure, curves, etc. You can count all those aspects with the flip of a switch or the movement of a slider. You needn't store all your images on little plastic cards and electromagnetic or digital media- you can still make prints.
In my own "world", I do photography for a living so if my equipment fails or is inadequate or if my picture is not up to snuff, I don't eat! Yet I am not all that preoccupied with gear upgrades. Even professionals do not have unlimited budgets and every purchase needs to be justified.
There are folks who spent all their photography time testing gear, chang it up, trading it in, worrying about the latest and greatest, etc. I would rather spend my time taking pictures or "making photographs" as the purists say. I buy good gear and use it 'till it disintegrates and I have no issues with image quality.
Cars? I drive an 11-year old Saturn SUV. it gets me from point A to point B and accommodates all my stuff. If my next car is electric, so be it. Hopefully, there will be plenty of charging stations and battery technology is improving every day. I certainly won't miss the gas pump and all the pollution- especially with the current prices for gas.
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I always appreciate your comments and observations, and in a case or two, corrections. Your use of the formation of "interphase" to express what the tech community define as interface is thought provoking. Because the artfully conscious manipulation of mechanical and electronic controls is a phase of activity get the desired physical results is what we do, after all. Your thoughts on equipment is ultimately practical, and it recalls come comments by a prominent Wedding and Portrait photographer who reminded her audience that she and others were making a darn fine living using 10 and 15 MPIX APS-C sensor cameras at the dawn of the Digital age. Of course the first "Full Frame" DSLR had 12 MP.
