Re: Effort

Bob <w8imo@xxxxxxxx> · Thu, 02 Jan 2014 11:19:51 -0500



    One night after a club meeting in the early days of digital
    photography a couple club members met for coffee after the meeting. 
    One of the guys was telling us how he just shot hundreds of pix with
    a model.  

    
    I asked how many he would have shot with film.  His answer was one
    or two rolls.  I then asked how much thought and time he put into
    each of the hundreds of shots.    No answer.

    
    A retired pro across the table looked at me and just smiled.  It was
    a knowingly smile.....

    
    Bob

    On 1/2/2014 9:47 AM, Jan Faul wrote:

    
      For the really lazy and uninitiated, this is one place where
        film comes from in big boxes : http://www.bhphotovideo.com/
      Of course they ship, and also sell everything you could ever
        need to take pictures except for a couple of things, i.e.
        patience, skill, curiosity, talent. 
      

      I don’t think anybody will miss your lack of effort Don.
      

        On Jan 2, 2014, at 8:01 AM, Randy Little wrote:
        

          and don't forget with HDR capture you can make
            the zone system look simplistic.   Sure people do a lot of
            gimmicky crap with it but a lot of work is just done well
            and looks nice.   I still know of no phone camera that is
            easy to use in terms of user interface.     My 8x10 is less
            convoluted then the menu systems on some phones.     
          

              Randy S. Little

                http://www.rslittle.com/

                http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325729/

                  
            On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Dan
              Mitchell <danmdan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
              wrote:

              
                Dan Mitchell

                danmdan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

                
                And what a convenience it is !  No more darkroom, no
                more smelly chemicals, no more stained carpets and
                baths, no drying, no glazing - these are but a few of
                the "conveniences"  we now can and (mostly) do enjoy.
                 If we had to have the least convenience we would all be
                going back to horse drawn portable darkrooms and wet
                plates.

                
                Recently I did indeed use what some would still call a
                "real" camera - when I found a place which still sold
                "real" film for one of my tiny vintage collection - but
                what an effort (and cost) it all was - nope, I think for
                me effort is just not worth it.

                
                As I may have said before in this column - when I was 40
                years younger I longed for a Hasselblad, now I can
                easily afford a good 500CM - but sheer effort of getting
                film, loading film, developing and printing same - is
                frankly now beyond me - yup, I'm lazy now - it's SO easy
                just taking a phone out of one's pocket that I doubt
                I'll ever use film again. R.I.P.

                
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                >>

                >> From: Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>

                >> Subject: Re: Olympus camera news.....

                >> Date: 31 December 2013 23:21:53 GMT

                >> To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators -
                Professionals - Students <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

                >>

                >>

                >> Cameras are not being replaced by smartphones,
                but effort is being replaced by convenience and
                laziness.

                >>

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