because they all capture photos, because that's the most important bit in the tool chain we use to do what we do, and we're a passionate bunch where that's concerned.
Christine Tham knows what she's talking abt when it comes to the camera she's used for years. ogl knows what he's talking abt too. So do we all to the best of our abilities.
And it's a constant thing, this search for a better tool that lets us do our thing better than before. We used to rave abt film, sing odes to Pan-X and Kodachrome and FP-4, now we argue over sensors. Musing abt the shape and size and distribution of silver crystals have been replaced with conjectures abt pixels and sensor construction techiques.
Not that our collective understanding has remained the same. i seem to remember once we took it for granted that there were oddly abstracted guys, prolly wearing thick glasses, who knew a heck of a lot abt optics, so much that their understanding went beyond the realm of science and technology and deep into art and individual genius, who sketched on lunch napkins at the company cafeteria designs for lenses that we're happy to pay exorbitant amounts for so we could screw them on our cameras and take the best pictures of man and nature that ever existed.
Now we have more knowledge of economics and how profit oriented organisations prosper and decline, and the power the for-profit company wields in determining what choice of products we get to choose from, to use as the tools of our expressions, and we still forever hope that the designers and engineers retain the flexibility within their companies to put their understanding and genius into their designs so that we will have something to use that's more than just a product of trend and fashion and currently cost-effective technology.
With the Q, only a few more weeks then we'll know.
Of course the stuff the Q is made from has limitations we all know abt. Look at the early Leica tho. i'm sure it had a bad rep among photographers of its day for using too small a piece of film to record stuff on. Wow, even your sister's Brownie used a bigger piece of film.
Will this Q be a really excellent camera, one that has to it something that extends my ability to apply my skill to make better photos than i can now, that's what interests me.
edit: i look at pictures and descriptions of the thing and so far i'm hopeful, out of my experience with using various cameras to photograph life on the street and on the go. But damn it's expensive.
Last edited by conradj; 07-21-2011 at 06:54 AM.