From: Alejandro Lopez de Haro (alhr@wanadoo.fr)
Date: 11/08/01-02:45:07 PM Z
Hi Ilovich:
The question is not the quality of the camera or the lens. We must remember,
that the camera doesn't make a photograph, it is the photographer who makes
the photograph.
Haven't you see beautiful photographs made with a pinhole camera?
Regards,
Alejandro López de Haro
----- Original Message -----
From: "illovich" <illovich@home.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: Digital photography musings
> on 11/2/01 12:14 PM, Richard Sullivan at richsul@earthlink.net wrote:
>
>
> > As for digitally "composed" photography, for the most part GIGO, garbage
in
> > garbage out. Mind you this is not an absolute, just some generalities
and
> > observations here. I've recently seen a couple of "digital photography"
> > shows here at Santa Fe local colleges. Abysmally poor compared to the
> > "real" photography exhibits at the same schools at the same time.
>
> This is a problem I've been having at Temple, where I take photography
> classes and work (for the computer services dept!), but I don't blame the
> supposed ease of the tools (like photoshop) or their speed vs. the
darkroom,
> but the often overlooked abysmal quality of digital cameras.
>
> I know there are good cameras available, but college students never see
> them. The least acceptable camera for what is called art photography
> available is probably the Nikon Coolpix 9xx series, which is retailing for
> about what, $800? And frankly, compared to a Canon Rebel G it's a horrible
> camera when you're talking about creative control of exposure.
>
> I think the problem is that since you just point and shoot, it's pretty
much
> all people do with them. I have tried very hard to do various projects
with
> digital cameras...I've abandoned the digital camera on almost every
occasion
> in favor of a film camera. Why? because when I get back to the computer,
> half the pictures are out of focus, because the tiny screen doesn't give
an
> accurate approximation of focus.
>
> I could belabor this point all day.
>
> I am not saying that this one factor is the only cause of poorer quality
> work, but I think that the GIGO factor of the actual hardware itself must
> make teaching "photography" a bit more difficult.
>
> Anyway, just wanted to chime in.
>
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