People like that have always been in a minority. The people who are using their iPads and phones to take pictures are the people who used the cheapest p&s cameras, and they're the cameras that will disappear. There will continue to be a small market for enthusiasts and the few professionals that remain, but my guess is that using a high-end camera will become as rare as using a medium format camera used to be.
When the Leica first came out professionals dismissed it on the grounds of image quality, but they hadn't learned to exploit it's unique properties. Same thing will happen again. B > On 2 Jan 2014, at 20:23, Walt <[email protected]> wrote: > > What gets me about this story, and the many others in the same vein, is that > they all seem to completely ignore the importance of optics in photography. > > I can't imagine anyone who cares about photography enough to spend money on a > 77/1.8 Ltd. suddenly saying to themselves, "You know what? Screw that. I'm > getting an iPhone. That'll be good enough." > > -- Walt > > >> On 1/2/2014 10:27 AM, Darren Addy wrote: >> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/12/goodbye-cameras.html > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
