Is digital “dumbing down” photography?
In no way is this intended to provoke another digital vs. film debate.
But.
I subscribe to half a dozen photo magazines (paper ones) which feature both digital and film images.
Right now I’m looking at a photo essay done with a Canon 1Ds Mk2 and L lenses (maybe $15,000 worth of gear).
A couple pages later there’s another essay, done with an F100, 24-85 and ISO100 transparency film. A $1000 kit, maybe more if the photog shot a lot of film.
The film images blow the digital into the weeds in terms of detail, colour range, dynamic range (no blown highlights) and the most elusive parameter of all — realism.
(It’s not the technique — both essays are very well shot.)
As I turn the pages of other mags I see this over and over again.
So here’s my question. Has digital lowered the technical standards of photography — dumbed it down?
absolutely, but dont tell people or I will be out of a job!
also dont start letting people know photography (great stuff) requires knowledge, practice, skill and technique, and a camera, the computer has little to do with great images
i love your questions!
your looking at colour wait till you compare in black and white
watch the dumbed down ones thumb me down, then go back to their macdonalds photography
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Photography: film versus digital
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