Bill. That is the most anti-digital photograph that I've seen in a long time.
Pure Analog, Baby.
Pure Analog, Baby.
Bill. That is the most anti-digital photograph that I've seen in a long time.
Pure Analog, Baby.
"Because that's what the author was saying" -- where exactly? 😉
"So who cares anymore? Digital is king now. I for one do care, immensely, about the differences between film and digital. Why? I want to make great photographs, that’s why."
What I read that the author said was "I often will put the camera on manual exposure or manual focus to keep those neural pathways oiled."
"Film is hard. Film is a stone cold unforgiving killing *******. Film is once in a lifetime, no excuses. F8 and really, really be there: ready, steady, in focus, correct exposure, and pressing the shutter in synch with life."
Nice digital photo of an analog circuit, BTW.
Although I didn't throw an 8 gig card into my D2x and "spray and pray" as its too difficult to chimp that way with the slow buffer and all... I was goofing around one day with lighting and such with this result. Totally cheesy but I thought these circuit boards have a kind of architectural order to them so more goofing and here is my "street scene". Never thought these silly images would see the light of day but like with film sometimes contact sheets are made public.
Digital is king now. I for one do care, immensely, about the differences between film and digital. Why? I want to make great photographs, that’s why.
bmattock said:That's pretty clear. You can't make 'great photographs' with a digital camera. It is a statement.
digitalintrigue said:What I read that the author said was "I often will put the camera on manual exposure or manual focus to keep those neural pathways oiled."
bmattock said:I didn't read that.
Whilst all this was going on yesterday, I went out to take photographs. It is, after all, what I like to do.
Not the world's greatest photo, but I took it with my new Pentax K200D, an Auto Sears 50mm f/1.7 manual focus k-mount lens, a Vivitar macro-focusing 2x teleconverter, and a Sigma EF-500 flash set to manual output. Manual focusing, manual control, and I used the LCD screen for feedback to make sure I was in the zone for exposure. I shot in JPG, but if the lighting had been wonkier, I might have gone for RAW.
I got all the 'advantages' of film, in that I was in full control of the camera (meaning, blame shortcomings on me, not the kit), and I used some of the positive aspects of digital (setting ISO and internal sharpness, contrast, etc as I liked it and relying on LCD for histogram feedback advice).
Somebody explain to me how I was absolutely unable to use a digital SLR camera in manual mode. Because that's what the author was saying - dSLRs make us lazy, and one cannot produce great photos with a dSLR. Funny how I - a lesser photographer than him - was able to surmount these incredible difficulties.
Oh, and the other commonly-heard argument - that I had to scroll through menus and so on - hah. I set the rotating knob on the camera to "M" and then used the thumbwheel to select my shutter speed, which showed up on top of the camera. I set the f-stop on the lens itself. I set the flash to manual with a switch on the flash. The only electronic button I pressed was for the LCD to chimp my shot afterwards. How terrible - lost in the menus, eh?
So .... a digital image captured is not a photograph because it is never fixed and forever be altered and according to several studies may not be archival as the systems for making that a possibility are themselves allow for data loss and decay of unknown rates of decay.