Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, Like you I'm a techie. I believe in it. But I have been thinking a lot about how technology impacts photography recently. When I fly I fly budget, and that means limited baggage. Buying hold baggage or whatever is of course possible, but it rapidly mounts up. Last time I travelled I could only travel with one bag for four days so had to leave laptop behind and carried only camera, charger and SD cards. I am however only shooting for my and very occasionally your, amusement. I wonder how our photo-journalistic heroes would have coped and whether they would have produced the images we revere them for, had they had to cart all that stuff. I completely agree with your observations about the Camino, from trying to take my kids to interesting sites! They are more worried about Facebook connectivity than what is around them. But somewhere buried in it technology advances. Peter On 06/03/2014 21:48, Tina Manley wrote: > I'm packing all of that right now for 3 weeks in Vietnam. I'm more worried > about leaving some crucial cable than I am about what clothes I'm packing!! > > Tina > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Jim Laurel (gmail) <jplaurel at > gmail.com>wrote: > .... >> I'm a technologist, but I am also concerned about the impact of technology >> on society and culture. I walked the Camino de Santiago from St. Jean Pied >> de Port to Compostella last Fall - 800 kilometers. So many pilgrims with >> their faces buried in their iPhones, frantic to find some WiFi. Sitting >> together at tables, but isolated, each one in his/her own little virtual >> world. Every night in the Abergues, people would be scrambling for the few >> outlets to charge phones, cameras, iPads, etc. I can't help but think that >> 30 years ago, they would have been enjoying the moment a bit more. >> >> --Jim >> -- =========================================================== Dr Peter Dzwig