Since washing up on this board a few weeks ago I've realised I'm not the only silver survivor from the digital revolution. As I don't buy enthusiast magazines I feel like those Japanese soldiers still fighting the war in the pacific twenty years after it finished. Not that I wasn't aware of digital - you see the stuff in every camera shop window - but I'd never been tempted to enquire beyond point and shoot compacts.
What strikes me is the pace of change in digital and the willingness of some people to pursue every new bit of technology. Photography has always had gear addicts and tackle tarts but most users eventuallly settled on a classic piece of kit from a prestige maker and concentrated on making pictures. Now the digital camera itself seems to be the event and frankly, the number of great images appear to be as rare now as they ever were in spite of the number of photos being taken.
Am I just a cumudgeon? Is this board for Canutes hoping to hold back the rising tide of can-do technology or does film have a different set of values? And what has happened to the mountain of quality SLRs that were once people's pride and joy?
I suspect the discussion has been had a thousand times but I'm completely out the loop so what exactly is going on?
What strikes me is the pace of change in digital and the willingness of some people to pursue every new bit of technology. Photography has always had gear addicts and tackle tarts but most users eventuallly settled on a classic piece of kit from a prestige maker and concentrated on making pictures. Now the digital camera itself seems to be the event and frankly, the number of great images appear to be as rare now as they ever were in spite of the number of photos being taken.
Am I just a cumudgeon? Is this board for Canutes hoping to hold back the rising tide of can-do technology or does film have a different set of values? And what has happened to the mountain of quality SLRs that were once people's pride and joy?
I suspect the discussion has been had a thousand times but I'm completely out the loop so what exactly is going on?