stefan_dinu
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I thought negatives are not affected by water. If you manage to find them. 🙂 But as for digital images.....
We are doomed
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chippy
foo was here
WOW...i was stunned at this...actually i thought it was kinda sad, you do shoot film dont you?
i reckon at least pick out a couple of your best and have them printed mounted and put em up...if not at least make an album up. i am sure friends family will appreciate seeing them even if you arnt bothered, but i am sure you will get something more out of them than seeing them on a screen
chippy
foo was here
your kidding here, yeah?
stefan_dinu
Established
It sounds like a joke to me also.
slm
Formerly nextreme
slm
Formerly nextreme
Very much so, yeah. What I wrote was basically in the article - the author assumes how people in the future would find a print a hassle, and much prefer digital display.
kevin m
Veteran
"Doomed?" That's just the sort of reactionary, head-in-the-sand reaction one might expect from a forum of antique cameras used by antique photographers. 😉😀
Growing old is a bitch, facing one's own mortality and all that, but as a creative person, you can't allow it to cloud ALL your judgements, can you, and reject EVERY new thing that comes along?
I went to this gallery on vacation in Maine: http://www.du4photo.com/natural_park_13.html
The photographer shoots all film, 35mm and 645, and his gallery is full of lovely prints. But I have to say that what drew my eye time and again was his 24" iMac running a screen-saver of his work. Some of them looked like giant transparencies on a light table. He said that he had had many request to buy a CD of his images to use as a screen saver, but that he refused as he couldn't figure out a way to keep people from printing from the CD. I wonder if he ever considered that the buyers had NO interest in making a print at all.....
Growing old is a bitch, facing one's own mortality and all that, but as a creative person, you can't allow it to cloud ALL your judgements, can you, and reject EVERY new thing that comes along?
I went to this gallery on vacation in Maine: http://www.du4photo.com/natural_park_13.html
The photographer shoots all film, 35mm and 645, and his gallery is full of lovely prints. But I have to say that what drew my eye time and again was his 24" iMac running a screen-saver of his work. Some of them looked like giant transparencies on a light table. He said that he had had many request to buy a CD of his images to use as a screen saver, but that he refused as he couldn't figure out a way to keep people from printing from the CD. I wonder if he ever considered that the buyers had NO interest in making a print at all.....
FPjohn
Well-known
slm
Formerly nextreme
And the inverse hold true also, if it ain't shiny and new and digital, then it must be antique junk for antique photographers, thus I must reject it?
charjohncarter
Veteran
Remember when books were all going to be online. I don't know anyone that ever read one at a screen.
sepiareverb
genius and moron
Still no mention of the expense and continuous use of resources powering all these extra screens. I'm pretty flabbergasted that so many people just accept this idea as a plausible one. Once museums jump on this we can then see all the great paintings from the great museums in any mall- and they'll look better! Cave paintings, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Mona Lisa, Pollock, everything in HD!! Zoom in to see every detail! Wait! Put it all on my cell phone! I can browse MOMA while sitting on the train and talking about what's for lunch to my buddy in the other car! It's better than real life! It's DIGITAL!
Great art in any medium cannot be replaced by the pixel. Just as the best art book is a poor substitute for seeing a great painting, the digital screen will be a poor substitute. But then again, quality is something the masses have little desire for.
Great art in any medium cannot be replaced by the pixel. Just as the best art book is a poor substitute for seeing a great painting, the digital screen will be a poor substitute. But then again, quality is something the masses have little desire for.
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FPjohn
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Remember the Sony advertisement for their television? The Grand Canyon's image, on their product, evokes a response where the Canyon itself did not.
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FPJ
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tritiated
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surely lcd screens etc. are just a replacement for (projector) slide shows?
dear charjohncarter, waterstones are going to sell sony readers:
http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=6337796
...but i doubt i will be in the queue to buy one..
I enjoy the fact that prints can be given as a gift. In addition, they dont require electricity, but plain daylight to be viewed!
dear charjohncarter, waterstones are going to sell sony readers:
http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=6337796
...but i doubt i will be in the queue to buy one..
I enjoy the fact that prints can be given as a gift. In addition, they dont require electricity, but plain daylight to be viewed!
gyuribacsi
Established
In my humble opinion the most significant sentence of the article is: "Reality itself might then become a thing of the past". Well.....😱
Maybe it happened allready?🙂
George
Maybe it happened allready?🙂
George
