I hate this word...

Thardy said:
What does nice tones even mean?
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To me, It might mean a wide range of grey levels, from dark black to full white and everything in between, or perhaps dramatic chiaroscuro.

I guess one needs to use a mouthful of words to avoid offending anyone? Or will the mouthful of words be offensive too?

Randy
 
liberal
"Liberal" used as a pejorative. And the implicit assumption that everyone within earshot of hearing the word "liberal" used negatively would agree that it is pejorative - crawdiddy

in light of this, i would add conservative used as a pejorative.
 
Is anybody else here bothered by how the word "Image" is used nowadays?
We used to simply make pictures, meaning of course we printed them or made slides. Now we all talk about images.
 
paulfish4570 said:
liberal
"Liberal" used as a pejorative. And the implicit assumption that everyone within earshot of hearing the word "liberal" used negatively would agree that it is pejorative - crawdiddy

in light of this, i would add conservative used as a pejorative.
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... here in the UK "Liberal" has been a pejorative noun since the last election ...

... unlike "Conservative", which has since the 17th century 😀
 
For me it's just the irritation of the emphasis by magazines on ' DIGITAL Slr ' DIGITAL Photography ' etc - I don't know the specific mags , 'cos looking at them gives me a headache !
It's as if there is a separation movement out there - why can't film and pixels exist in the same universe ?
 
These days almost everybody is using a digital camera, they have really taken over from analog photography. However not everybody has made the switch, there are some people who still prefer to shoot with film. In large part this is limited to professionals and the serious hobby photographer
 
Peter^ said:
Is anybody else here bothered by how the word "Image" is used nowadays?
We used to simply make pictures, meaning of course we printed them or made slides. Now we all talk about images.
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I use "image" to imply that I seriously manipulated (on a computer) the picture that came out of the camera.

My pet hate words: "problematic", "challenge", "go-to-_______",

and my most hated word = "boundarylessness" (an internal business [company name deleted] term that really meant "we can hold anyone responsible for any screw-up that they actually were not involved in")
 
Sparrow said:
... here in the UK "Liberal" has been a pejorative noun since the last election ...
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Nah, it goes back before that, to when they fired Chat-Show Charlie. He may have been a pisshead, but at least he had some personality. Or indeed, it goes back to when they became the Liberal Democrats: the SDP were a pretty unsavoury bunch.

I joined the Young Liberals in 1966, partly for the politics and partly because I was at an all-boys boarding school. I hoped to meet girls, and I did: I forget how long Mary and I were together. But I voted Liberal for many years afterwards. Now, the party would need to change a LOT for me to vote Liberal Democrat again.

Cheers,

R.
 
We have a problem.
No we don't, we have an issue.
No we don't, we have a challenge.
No we don't, we have an opportunity.

Corporate speak at its best.

Closely followed by "touch base".

Now as for TV commentators stating we have "vision" coming through now. What was wrong with saying pictures?
 
"Strobe". What's wrong with saying "flash" to refer to on-camera flash, studio flash, hand-held flash,built-in flash,etc?
Flashlight is synonymous with torchlight so there's no confusion there.
 
funkydog said:
"Strobe". What's wrong with saying "flash" to refer to on-camera flash, studio flash, hand-held flash,built-in flash,etc?
Flashlight is synonymous with torchlight so there's no confusion there.
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... but then they would have to call themselves Flashers, rather than Strobists ... which seems fair enough now I think about it 🙂
 
There are 2 major definitions of "analog": one in electronics and one in literature & science. Unfortunately, the term fails both when applied to film cameras.

What is particularly odd about calling a chemical film medium 'analog' is that 'digital' sensors are, ironically, analog sensors (analog signals are processed through analog-to-digital conversion).

The literary/scientific definition of 'analog' would also cross-up the definition - digital cameras are the analog (e.g. similar, substitute) to the "original," film cameras.

It looks like the term originated, or was at least made firm by the popular analog photography users group (APUG, est. 2002) website, within the film community itself, probably as a reactionary joke to the hyperbole surrounding 'digital' at the time? I don't think new folks to photography get the joke.

(My other term-peeve is "airhead BMW"...)


-Charlie
 
I just wrote a blog article about this, last week, and have yet to post it.

While I don't as of yet have a good alternative for the word "analogue," I think that the term "Boolean" is a better descriptor for electronic photography than "digital," it being George Boole who codified Aristotlean logic into mathematical symbology that has become the basis of electronic "logic".

When we employ the term "logic circuit," for instance, we are saying that the circuit in question operates under principles of Boolean Logic, which is not necessarily "digital". Truly digital circuits employ Boolean Logic to encode data in numerical form (such as BCD - Binary Coded Decimal, or PCM - Pulse Code Modulation, or the output of an A-to-D converter, a serial bit stream of numerical information), whereas circuits employing logic gates (AND, OR, NAND, XOR, etc.) employ Boolean Logic absent numerical digitalization.

All digital circuits are Boolean, but not all Boolean circuits are digital, digital being a subset of Boolean.

-Joe
 
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