Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There are at least a dozen M8 photos in the soon-to-be-released yearbook. They look great. On 2020-02-18 6:57 am, Mark Rabiner wrote: > A digital camera is good enough for ten years as its good enough for > its first year until you compare it with the results everyone else is > getting from their vastly improved sensors and other electronic > components. This is used as a criticism of the digital workflow or > system. "if digital was a worthwhile process you'd not need to buy a > new camera every 4 years", said the guy who was trading cameras and > not making images. > Every day in every way the camera companies are making digital cameras > with improved components better and better. > They are not sitting on their hands but working double shifts... And > this is a bad thing!? We should make apologies for them? To whom the > camera collectors? > It's a bad thing if you think what makes you a photographer is your > gear investment and your images have nothing to do with it. > Me I have no vital need to sell my digital cameras for what I bought > them for years later as a validation of my photography workflow. > All what needs to happen is the images I've been making all that time > continue to have value and will probably increase in value. And I > think that?s happening. > A DSLR is more than an SLR with a D in front of it. In many ways it?s > a way more awesome of an image making tool than a 35mm film camera. It > diminishes the need for medium format digital. A film shooter may > mainly use 35mm but has a Rolleiflex or Pentax 67 not to far away. > With digital we blow at least the so called full frame stuff up as big > as the wall and it does not look like it's been stretched too thin at > all. > You certainly don?t hear of people doing serious work now with a ten > year old digital camera... long gone... half that. > As Rockwell the Nikon camera reviewer used to say: obsolete! > As Rabs the LUG writer guy used to say: paper weight! > A great time to be a photographer, said Rabs another time.