Photography is dead

[jsrockit]

Although, I'm curious to find out if it can tell the difference between a shot by Eggleston and one by my eight-year-old niece.

Damn, your 8 year old neice must be really good!

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Damn, your 8 year old neice must be really good!

I don't think the point of this "camera" is to figure out whether something is good or not.

But I believe that if we submit a common non-photography-in-the-know person to compare the shots on a blind test, the results would be quite surprising. Yet, that's really besides the point.

 

[shadowfox]

Although, I'm curious to find out if it can tell the difference between a shot by Eggleston and one by my eight-year-old niece.

I think in the above case, the device can give us two descriptions.
Then it's up to us to interpret those descriptions.

Back to square one, aren't we 🙂

 

[MiloMoskover]

I have a better idea: Take a digital picture while commuting, show it to the person sitting next to you on the bus/train, ask for a 2 line description on paper and ... bing! Pretty much the same result. Except the internet wasn't used.... Strange how using the internet for someone else's eyes makes a photo's description more interesting than your own...

You might even strike up an interesting conversation with a real person about photography while you're commuting...

 

[thirtyfivefifty]

Hardly dead! I thought a picture was worth 1,000 words?