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12-27-2015, 04:57 AM   #1
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Here is a link to what a long lost friend of mine was telling me about a few months ago. He convinced me to wait on a DSLR, stick with film, and go with a point and shoot to wait it out. I find it fascinating, and logical that digital imaging is being explored at this level. I can see it coming sooner than I first imagined.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/the-future-of-computational-photography/?_r=2

12-27-2015, 05:53 AM   #2
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The journalist comes across as technologically ignorant, or as trying too hard to make this technology sound cool and revolutionary. I think there are too few journalists who truly understand the technology they cover, or who truly understand technology at all really. They are either in awe of it or in fear of it, but either way it stems from ignorance and a primarily non-technological world view.

Journalists who cover war zones are, in my opinion, particularly guilty of this. A 2006 picture of a "bombed out ambulance" with a "direct hit from an Israeli bomb through the red cross in the roof" is a classic example - any bomb large enough to make the hole would have left nothing of the ambulance, but because the correspondent who was shown this fraud didn't understand that, his Palestinian escort was able to send him away with a head full of lies and misdirected outrage.
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QuoteOriginally posted by pichur Quote
He convinced me to wait on a DSLR, stick with film, and go with a point and shoot to wait it out.
Sounds like "The Path Of Waiting Forever For The Next Great Thing".
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I waited digital out until I felt it had advanced to a point where I felt the quality was near-competitive with film, but I was enthusiastic from the start about the potential for rapid availability of the images. In the context of teaching medical students pathology, it's sometimes very counterproductive to have to wait until the end of the roll until you can get the pictures done, even if the latter could be done within the hour on most street corners. I think I finally snapped at the 8MP barrier.

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QuoteOriginally posted by pathdoc Quote
I think I finally snapped at the 8MP barrier.
That sounds like it was a mistake. 10mp cameras would have been around the corner, with 12mp soon to follow.
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That sounds like it was a mistake. 10mp cameras would have been around the corner, with 12mp soon to follow.
LOL it gets even worse. It was a Nikon Coolpix 8700, and when it was stolen I replaced it with a 6MP *istDL. With a Sigma kit lens.
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The reality is that times have always been changing. Every decade of photography has brought along new technology related to taking and viewing photos. I work hard to not stay stuck in the era that I grew up (photographically speaking) in.

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I don't know much about photography, to paraphrase Paul Simon, however my friend is a media guy with a huge company and is always on top of the latest developments. He and the department he runs were early adopters of digital, and I do believe he is correct. I still like film so its all good with me for now. Seriously waiting for the next generation of equipment that capitalizes on digital imaging beyond the traditional digital image (picture) taking. As he said, it is a whole different way of viewing the definition of a picture. For sure it will be interesting.
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QuoteOriginally posted by pichur Quote
Here is a link to what a long lost friend of mine was telling me about a few months ago. He convinced me to wait on a DSLR, stick with film, and go with a point and shoot to wait it out. I find it fascinating, and logical that digital imaging is being explored at this level. I can see it coming sooner than I first imagined.
I hope you are patient. You might be waiting a decade before this trickles down to consumer cameras. Maybe longer if they hit roadblocks along the way.
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Yep, patience is the one thing I retained from childhood. My trusty MX film camera works just fine, and the point and shoot digital I just got is turning out to be a real game changer for me in accepting digital. 10 years, no biggie, but I bet it will be sooner than that.
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