Are we Luddites?

[rover]

The meter in my M6 when coupled with the processing power of the Rover 2.0 father board is far superior to any DSLR wiz thingy. And other than a couple cups of coffee each morning the Rover operates at all shutter speeds without a battery.

No luddite here, just advanced technology baby!!! 😉

 

[alan davus]

My own prediction is, long after digital photography has been supplanted by a new technology, silver halide will still be alive and well and our M6's, Mp's, Zeiss', Cv's, Zorki's etc. will outlive and out function all the plastic fantastics.

 

[Sparrow]

My own prediction is, long after digital photography has been supplanted by a new technology, silver halide will still be alive and well and our M6's, Mp's, Zeiss', Cv's, Zorki's etc. will outlive and out function all the plastic fantastics.

I’m sure you’re right; checking round Luddenfoot in the present day confirms not a single Cropping Frame in use!!
Digital technology’s bound to go the same way 🙄

(Local folk-law holds that Ned Ludd was born two or three miles from my home in a village called Luddenfoot)

 

[John Bragg]

as long as you aren't tossing your wooden shoes into machines, you're fine 🙂

That is the TRUE meaning of "sabotage". A SABOT being a wooden shoe !!!

 

[Sparrow]

as long as you aren't tossing your wooden shoes into machines, you're fine 🙂

That is the TRUE meaning of "sabotage". A SABOT being a wooden shoe !!!

I thought a Sabot was a heavy French walking stick you hit jacquard looms with?

 

[John Bragg]

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9064634/sabot

Try this for size !

Regards, John.

 

[Sparrow]

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9064634/sabot

Try this for size !

Regards, John.

Well! Ya learn something everyday
🙂

regards

 

[John Bragg]

Well! Ya learn something everyday
🙂

Precisely why I remain a film and rangefinder photographer. There is always more to learn about the process, and I love it that way. It is as much about the journey, as the destination..... :bang:

Regards, John.

 

[Sparrow]

Well! Ya learn something everyday
🙂

Precisely why I remain a film and rangefinder photographer. There is always more to learn about the process, and I love it that way. It is as much about the journey, as the destination..... :bang:

Regards, John.

While I don’t go round hitting DSLRs with clogs I’m not comfortable with digital cameras myself, they take over somehow, and Luddite is probably a fair description

 

[mjflory]

How foolish are you Photographers who make distinctions amongst the varieties of your evil Craft! The Leipzig City Advertiser has put it better than I could:

"The wish to capture evanescent reflections is not only impossible... but the mere desire alone, the will to do so, is blasphemy. God created man in His own image, and no man- made machine may fix the image of God. Is it possible that God should have abandoned His eternal principles, and allowed a Frenchman... to give to the world an invention of the Devil?"

The Photographers who flood our Streets have become a public nuisance. Only 150 years ago the Art-Journal noted that "It has really now become a matter for Police interference both on the grounds of propriety and public comfort!"

Assistant, hand me my palette and brushes!

[See the fascinating History of Photography from its beginnings till the 1920s by Dr. Robert Leggat, posted here on the unspeakably newfangled World Wide Web.]

-- Michael

 

[Sparrow]

How foolish are you Photographers who make distinctions amongst the varieties of your evil Craft! The Leipzig City Advertiser has put it better than I could:

"The wish to capture evanescent reflections is not only impossible... but the mere desire alone, the will to do so, is blasphemy. God created man in His own image, and no man- made machine may fix the image of God. Is it possible that God should have abandoned His eternal principles, and allowed a Frenchman... to give to the world an invention of the Devil?"

The Photographers who flood our Streets have become a public nuisance. Only 150 years ago the Art-Journal noted that "It has really now become a matter for Police interference both on the grounds of propriety and public comfort!"

Assistant, hand me my palette and brushes!

[See the fascinating History of Photography from its beginnings till the 1920s by Dr. Robert Leggat, posted here on the unspeakably newfangled World Wide Web.]

-- Michael

I suppose we could discus the minutiae of theology instead, less contentious??
🙂

 

[varjag]

With masters in Computer Science, practical understanding of electronics and job close to the bleeding edge of technology I hardly consider myself a Luddite. It just happens that I prefer to take pictures using a rangefinder stuffed with Tri-X.

 

[40oz]

I suppose we could discus the minutiae of theology instead, less contentious??
🙂

what's the best Leitz lens to use for taking pictures of pins? And what film should I use to count the angels? Or would a Zeiss optic be better suited for this? What's the lp/mm required for such a pursuit? I'd like to do this on 35mm, with a rangefinder, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

 

[mtbbrian]

While I am not about to do a Ned Ludd to the nearest digital camera factory(Not that there is one close to me anyway) and I do have a digital point and shoot camera, if using film and manual focus cameras for my personal and artistic photography, makes me a luddite then so be it...
🙄 😀 😉 😛
I ain't scared..
Brian

 

[Sparrow]

what's the best Leitz lens to use for taking pictures of pins? And what film should I use to count the angels? Or would a Zeiss optic be better suited for this? What's the lp/mm required for such a pursuit? I'd like to do this on 35mm, with a rangefinder, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

I don’t think either Leica or Zeiss would photograph angels; you would need to be Canonized I imagine

:angel: :angel: :angel: :angel: :angel:

 

[mjflory]

I don’t think either Leica or Zeiss would photograph angels; you would need to be Canonized I imagine

:angel: :angel: :angel: :angel: :angel:

Owwwwwwwww!

 

[GeneW]

What's a mix of modern and luddite? Moddite? Luddern? That's what I am. I use digital and I use film with equal enjoyment. I use them for different reasons, but 'need' them both.

Gene

 

[mjflory]

What's a mix of modern and luddite? Moddite? Luddern? That's what I am. I use digital and I use film with equal enjoyment. I use them for different reasons, but 'need' them both.

Gene

I like "moddite" a lot! May I hazard a formal definition? "Moddite: One who persists in the use of an earlier technology for the benefits it confers on his craft or the pleasure he takes in his work, while not forgoing the use of the most modern methods when appropriate."

I'm happy to consider myself one.

-- Michael

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

No one here is a Luddite. You are not even old-fashioned, otherwise you would not be looking at a computer and reading this response.

You just happen to prefer a different media for your photography over what is today considered to be the "in thing".

Now that last statement is old-fashioned.

In my day, we had noncomputer-knitted socks made in the same country you bought them. And we liked it! :angel:

We even had handkerchiefs embroidered by someone not found through eHarmony.com ... and we liked it!

Wait. Hold on, I'm ordering some stocks of that new chinese textile shop...

😱

 

[Sparrow]

I’ll stick with Luddite; I quite like the idea of being a subversive old fogy; refusing to run this “latest thing” hamster-wheel of technology.

Or maybe heretic is a better word