> > From: frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/06 Fri PM 12:43:58 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Digital profligacy > > On 5/6/05, Tom Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > > > "I wonder which camera has taken the most interesting photographs." > > > > 'Most interesting' is an opinion so there are no wrong answers. Here's > > my list: > > > > the ones the National Geographic photographers carried during their > > treks into the Amazon basin etc > > > > the one that <insert the guys name here> used for his pioneering bullet > > through the apple type shots > > > > the ones built into those spacecraft that have been exploring Mars etc > > > > the electron microscope cameras that photographed the ants head at a > > thousand times lifesize > > > > I think maybe the relevent question might be "which camera has a > higher ratio of interesting photos to duds?" > > And I'm not saying that taking piles and piles of photos with a > smaller ratio of "winners" is a bad thing - it's always been said that > taking lots of photos is a key to improving. > > BUT, taking 10,000 photos and indescriminately deleting 9,900 of them > without learning "what went wrong" or what's improvable, isn't doing > much good either. > > I do think it's interesting (but maybe totally meaningless in the > overall scheme of things) that 70 year old Leicas are still ticking > and taking great photos. My guess is that the current crop of DSLR's > will all be out of service in 10 years (if not sooner). Indeed, the > current digital photo capture/storage system may be completely out of > date and unusable by then.
You'll burn for that, Frank. 8-) > > cheers, > frank > > > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
