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Kavine C
I have a buddy who believes that technology is ruining everything. yet the individual is a photographer. so i want to explain that the camera itself is a piece of technological ingenuity. please help me build a case to explain to this person how contradictory his belief is.
the argument dosen't lie if its new or old technology but if its technology itself. a 100 year old human and a 1 year old human are both still human. even if its not a breakthrough it does not alter the fact of its origin. a piece of technological ingenuity
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Of course today's digital cameras are a piece of "technological ingenuity", and with each year that passes they will become more and more advanced. For example, I think within the next 5 years we will see affordable full frame sensor DSLR's for the masses.
But is this technology "ruining everything".. Hmm, well for photography as an art I believe that the sheer amount of cameras in the world today, plus the popularity of the internet and the ability to view billions of images online, has seriously affected peoples perception of what constitutes a good photo. Today's digital cameras will not last more than a few years before they pack up and die. Even the top of the range DSLR's have a lifespan of 300,000 clicks (yes that's a lot, but it is still a limited lifespan). Plus with every camera bought, it is obsolete in a few months by the next latest and greatest wonder camera. The camera companies love making people think that their perfectly adequate last years model is in some way inferior to this years new release, usually by feeding them the Megapixel Myth.. http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm
Now I have a collection of MF and 35mm cameras. A couple are from the 1930's and still function as good as the day they rolled off the production line 80 years ago. Many of the cameras in my collection have no electronics, a few do not even need batteries!, so they will continue to function perfectly well beyond even my lifetime... A Canon 450D bought today?... Give it 5 years and it is fit for the bin. Some cheaper P&S digital cameras?, even less than that. So technology is ruining something, it is ruining the environment. The capacitors used in today's digital cameras are extremely polluting both in their manufacture and disposal. Batteries are of course bad for the environment, as are plastics and the production of digital sensors (a high reject rate). Now I'm going to steer away from the environmental part of the issue because to be honest, I don't hold particularly strong views on it.
I have a camera I will use as an example.. I have a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 515/2 medium format camera. Produced in the 1930's, no electronics, just a nice lens and a nice format. The resolution of this camera rivals today's DSLR's, and it costs around £10 from eBay. You select the aperture, you select the shutter speed, you set the focus distance, and you press the shutter release... That's it!... And that's all photography is about!.. All the silly gadgets and gizmos manufacturers are cramming into todays DSLR's are utterly unnecessary to 99% of people buying them. Does somebody who wants to take snaps of their daughter in her school play need 15mp and 10 fps?.. Of course not. Yet consumers are lapping it up every year, selling their DSLR's and buying new ones because they have GPS or an extra MP...
When you consider what photography is actually about it does not matter how it is recorded, whether it is on a camera phone, a pinhole camera, a 35mm rangefinder, a DSLR, or a Hasselblad H4D, the end result is all that matters... But technology is turning people into lazy photographers. People no longer bother or want to learn about exposure, why bother?.. The camera will do a half-assed effort on your behalf.
I've said it before and I will say it again.. Digital is the best AND the worst thing to happen to photography as an art.
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Of course today's digital cameras are a piece of "technological ingenuity", and with each year that passes they will become more and more advanced. For example, I think within the next 5 years we will see affordable full frame sensor DSLR's for the masses.
But is this technology "ruining everything".. Hmm, well for photography as an art I believe that the sheer amount of cameras in the world today, plus the popularity of the internet and the ability to view billions of images online, has seriously affected peoples perception of what constitutes a good photo. Today's digital cameras will not last more than a few years before they pack up and die. Even the top of the range DSLR's have a lifespan of 300,000 clicks (yes that's a lot, but it is still a limited lifespan). Plus with every camera bought, it is obsolete in a few months by the next latest and greatest wonder camera. The camera companies love making people think that their perfectly adequate last years model is in some way inferior to this years new release, usually by feeding them the Megapixel Myth.. http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm
Now I have a collection of MF and 35mm cameras. A couple are from the 1930's and still function as good as the day they rolled off the production line 80 years ago. Many of the cameras in my collection have no electronics, a few do not even need batteries!, so they will continue to function perfectly well beyond even my lifetime... A Canon 450D bought today?... Give it 5 years and it is fit for the bin. Some cheaper P&S digital cameras?, even less than that. So technology is ruining something, it is ruining the environment. The capacitors used in today's digital cameras are extremely polluting both in their manufacture and disposal. Batteries are of course bad for the environment, as are plastics and the production of digital sensors (a high reject rate). Now I'm going to steer away from the environmental part of the issue because to be honest, I don't hold particularly strong views on it.
I have a camera I will use as an example.. I have a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 515/2 medium format camera. Produced in the 1930's, no electronics, just a nice lens and a nice format. The resolution of this camera rivals today's DSLR's, and it costs around £10 from eBay. You select the aperture, you select the shutter speed, you set the focus distance, and you press the shutter release... That's it!... And that's all photography is about!.. All the silly gadgets and gizmos manufacturers are cramming into todays DSLR's are utterly unnecessary to 99% of people buying them. Does somebody who wants to take snaps of their daughter in her school play need 15mp and 10 fps?.. Of course not. Yet consumers are lapping it up every year, selling their DSLR's and buying new ones because they have GPS or an extra MP...
When you consider what photography is actually about it does not matter how it is recorded, whether it is on a camera phone, a pinhole camera, a 35mm rangefinder, a DSLR, or a Hasselblad H4D, the end result is all that matters... But technology is turning people into lazy photographers. People no longer bother or want to learn about exposure, why bother?.. The camera will do a half-assed effort on your behalf.
I've said it before and I will say it again.. Digital is the best AND the worst thing to happen to photography as an art.
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How good is the camera on the DSi?
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Is it clear? Can you zoom? How many mega pixles?
Answer
The camera is about as good or clear as older cameras in cellphones.
Since there is no real lens or other optical components except the image sensor chip, it's effectively a pinhole camera.
The cameras have 0.3 Megapixel (i.e. 640x480)
The cameras can zoom, but it's digital zoom, not an optical zoom. This means, when you zoom into an object, the effective resolution is reduced, and you get a more coarse picture.
The camera is about as good or clear as older cameras in cellphones.
Since there is no real lens or other optical components except the image sensor chip, it's effectively a pinhole camera.
The cameras have 0.3 Megapixel (i.e. 640x480)
The cameras can zoom, but it's digital zoom, not an optical zoom. This means, when you zoom into an object, the effective resolution is reduced, and you get a more coarse picture.
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