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RE: You know what's interesting about digital photography?

Posted by Abstraction (A) on June 25, 2015 at 09:52:19

In Reply to: RE: You know what's interesting about digital photography? posted by Tony Lauck on June 25, 2015 at 08:15:54:

I have been involved with fairly serious levels of both audio and photography for 30 years.

They are not significantly comparable. Audio systems are devices for reproducing a signal as accurately as possible.

Photographic systems, except in certain scientific applications, are creative tools.

Digital has simplified both audio and photo systems. Digital audio, however, has made little difference in the outcome. Turntables and vinyl were a pain in the rear to use, but they would get the job done. I don't know that digital has made great difference in what I hear when I sit down after dinner to listen to music.

For years I used Hasselblads and Rolleiflex Twin Lens Reflex cameras. They were wonderful machines. They were, however, big, heavy, and difficult to use. I can carry a Sony A7r with some of the smaller lenses in a jacket pocket. This makes a real difference in the pictures I get to take.

In terms of picture quality, Apple has been running commercials showing what can be done with an IPhone; very spectacular on a HDTV. Of course, IPhones work better with some kinds of subject matter than others, and if you want large prints, you will quickly run into limitations.

I really don't have much an opinion about this. In practice, I'm going to use hi-rez digital cameras, and in theory, it seems to me a silly question, that will produce a lot of silly arguments. Here are a couple of pieces by good photographers talking about the relevant issues. There might be many reasons to use film. I have never used an 8x10camera,but I did use a 4X5 for some time. It puts you in an entirely different relation to the subject matter, and there are a lot of questions that cannot be answered simply. The assumption is that in audio one might want to leave subjective stuff out. In making art it is at least in some sense about subjective expression.

https://luminous-landscape.com/rolleiflex/

https://luminous-landscape.com/rediscovering-8x10/

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