Comedian Louie CK on Digital Cameras...

Every time I use my leica Standard, I say to myself "I cant beleive this thing was made before WW2", I have so much graditude towards it. He is so right about the miracle of flight. I once got told off by a steward for keeping my window open, "the other passengers want to watch the movie" I told her that I want to look at the clouds, and I meant it. It is amazing. This is a great post
 
lawnpotter said:
Every time I use my leica Standard, I say to myself "I cant beleive this thing was made before WW2", I have so much graditude towards it. He is so right about the miracle of flight. I once got told off by a steward for keeping my window open, "the other passengers want to watch the movie" I told her that I want to look at the clouds, and I meant it. It is amazing. This is a great post
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Thank you. I've thought this often. I, like the comedian, came from an era of black and white TV, got our first color when I was in 1st grade, had a rotary phone with no answering machine that our whole family shared. When I read some reviews of cameras and oft-time ridiculous criticisms, I think of this bit by Louie CK. Here, I have a digicam that cost me 40 dollars (used) that can take take pics, zoom out hand-held with a tiny lens, shoot high definition video... slips in my pocket. But it will be criticized because it "only has mono audio" - or "its video is "only" 720P or some other nonsense. What?!?! What!?!?!

Here, I have an inexpensive device that allows me to freeze a moment in time! - And view it back later on either paper or on a computer. It's #&^& amazing, amazing! But some will whine that "the viewfinder isn't bright enough. Or some other ridiculous nonsense.

It's amazing, AMAZING!

I'm with Louie CK on this one.
 
I really don't care for his comedy but here he's Right On...man...I was talking bad about my phone just today...
Thanks for setting me straight...
 
NickTrop said:
Thank you. I've thought this often. I, like the comedian, came from an era of black and white TV, got our first color when I was in 1st grade, had a rotary phone with no answering machine that our whole family shared. When I read some reviews of cameras and oft-time ridiculous criticisms, I think of this bit by Louie CK...

It's amazing, AMAZING!
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Very recognizable! But this also gives me pangs of nostalgia. The world seemed so much fuller of wonders then.. The first B&W TV set in the house, seeing a broadcast of the first man on the moon, building a working radio with a vacuum tube and a couple of other bits 'n bobs, my parent's first car (a dinky fiat 500).. the list goes on.

Although technology still marches on, I can't help feeling that we're seeing less real breakthroughs nowadays. The generation that's growing up now doesn't know a world without computers, internet and smart phones. What miracles are there for them to be amazed by?
 
Vics/Alowisney - Louie CK's stand up is hit or miss with me (here, a "hit" obvs) but I do like his sitcom, Louie, a lot. Saw the 1st season on Netflix. Looking forward to when they start streaming season II.

pvdhaar - I agree and disagree at the same time. I think part of the issue is that these "young whipper-snappers" have become immune to the wonders not because there are fewer breaktroughs.
 
Sometimes when we fuss over this lens or that lens, we have to remember that 50 years ago even enthusiast photographers had one camera and three 3 lenses.
 
I'm an airline pilot. This bit is hysterical.

I'm glad he also appreciates a decent camera and gives his time to our troops on the USO tour in the middle east. I'm also an Air Force veteran.

NickTrop said:
Well... he's actually talking about cell phones and planes, but just insert "cameras" or "digital cameras"... He's spot on, and I think this exact same thing when I read criticisms of cameras on photography sites - and here sometimes on this very forum... and have for a while:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk&feature=related
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The bit is even better in context with him talking about how HE was that guy bitching on the plane.

One of the great things Louis CK does with his comedy is implicate himself in the failings he talks about - he's not the hero or the man put-upon by all the morons around him.
 
Nick, I'm also completely with you on this. I grew up in a home where the phone was a wooden box on the wall, with a crank handle on the side, and the phone line was shared by six other homes!

I now have a 10 yr. old daughter, and I just love seeing the looks of disbelief in her eyes when I point at her iPod/iPad/iWhatever and tell her these stories. 🙂

But I'd like to add something to what Louie is saying. I feel sad for my daughter because this weird juggernaut, offering the next 'gotta-have-it' technology/life-style/body-type/language-fashion commandment, is reaching such an acceleration that the ability to enjoy non-techno life is fast being buried in plastic and heavy-metal poison. And all for what? To sell more stuff to ourselves!!! Sick. I'll just keep trying to slow my daughter down so that she gets a few chances to do things with her heart. 🙂
 
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