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Boxclever
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# Posted: 16 Jul 08 10:53
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I am sat in Gatwick airport with the family with an hour to kill before being called for our flight to Naples. The thought occured to me that, when I went on holiday 25 years ago with my pentax ME super (which I had saved for ages for) and 2 or 3 rolls of film, i might be lucky enough to return with a few good pictures. And, you never knew what you had until the film had been develped and printed. Mostly disappointment!
Today I am off with my little Canon compact and a Gig of memory knowing that I can shoot away with virtually no limitations CERTAIN that I will return home with a least a handful of pics that I'm really happy with.
Isn't technology wonderful!?
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Nivad
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# Posted: 16 Jul 08 11:22
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Well That isthe great advantage of digital photography, you can as much as you like at nearly no cost. And that is what happens everybody shoots and shoots and shoots... thinking that out of all those shots there will be at least one pictures which was worththe effort and of course those people are right.
On the other hand you could consider it a disadvantage not having to think anymore before before pressing that release button...
Another advantage is that everybody is becoming able to post process his/her work. Besides photoshop there are plenty of free- and/or shareware programs to edit our pictures, while in analog times people had to be satisfied with the prints as they were presented by the labs...
So yes technolgy is wonderful, if can afford it...
Grtz
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zerega
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# Posted: 16 Jul 08 13:24
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Although i'm still analogue i'm very glad to have a sneak peek of future travel destinations by the user generated content uploaded on sites like this.
In former times you would browse through a coffee table book, that gave you an impression seen through an artist and photos taken on very special or rare occasions of selected places.
Now picture of many people give a much more real feel of almost every spot on earth, and that's thanks to the new possibilities of digital imaging and internet.
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pansa
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# Posted: 16 Jul 08 14:16
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Digital photography saves your marriage. In the old days you spent hours and hours in the dark room with the door tightly locked. My wife didn;t like that very much. Today you spent the same amount of time or even more behind the PC. But you are sitting in the living room working on the photos, so it is more socialised. That's what technology does!!
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Peter Kamphuis
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# Posted: 16 Jul 08 21:16
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I really like digital photography and hardly can imagine how I could handle things in those (not even that) old times. But, indeed it seems that one spends a lot more time in sorting out, post-processing and archiving the hundeds, if not thousands of images after a trip.
Photography just being a hobby for me, I don't always have that much time... a pity.
Peter
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Geoffrey McElwaine
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# Posted: 17 Jul 08 00:11
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Digital photography enables me to experiment, to attempt to capture more difficult images without the need, in analogue days, to wait for the film to be processed . Now, if it's not right first time : do it again ! The downside, as Nivad has said, is the temptation not to be disciplined in selecting / composing images . " Let's just take 20 or 30 : maybe one will be OK " seems, sadly, to be the mindset of some Woophy uploaders.
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Geoff. ( Geoffrey McElwaine )
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3.1416
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# Posted: 17 Jul 08 19:59 - Edited by: 3.1416
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Agree with Geoffrey, Zerega and Nivad.
I do photographies with digital and analogous, I think that the analogous photography you need to think more about the result, the problem of some persons with the digital photography is that they do photographies without thinking about the result since this one is immediate, and if it is not wished simply is deleted.
Regards.
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Boxclever
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# Posted: 7 Aug 08 14:50
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I was really making the point that digital photography is so much more affordable these days and certainly in realation to film and print.
What's all this analogue stuff? Something that isn't obviously digital isn't necessarily automatically analogue.
I would that the 'old' celluloid chemical film and chemical paper is non-electronic digital. Now there's another thought!
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pansa
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# Posted: 7 Aug 08 17:55
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From Wikipedia
A digital system uses discrete (that is, discontinuous) values to represent information for input, processing, transmission, storage, etc. By contrast, non-digital (or analog) systems use a continuous range of values to represent information. Although digital representations are discrete, the information represented can be either discrete, such as numbers, letters or icons, or continuous, such as sounds, images, and other measurements of continuous systems.
The word digital comes from the same source as the word digit and digitus (the Latin word for finger), as fingers are used for discrete counting.
The word digital is most commonly used in computing and electronics, especially where real-world information is converted to binary numeric form as in digital audio and digital photography. Such data-carrying signals carry electronic or optical pulses, the amplitude of each of which represents a logical 1 (pulse present and/or high) or a logical 0 (pulse absent and/or low).
An example my old boss used to give:
"Imagine you have your window broken and you want to replace it. There are 2 ways to take the size. Either you keep your hands at the proper distance apart while you walk to the glass store. That's analog. Or you measure it, write it down on a sheet of paper and take that to the glass store. That's digital. What would be more accurate????"
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neil baxter
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# Posted: 9 Aug 08 02:01
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didital photography opens the seemingly unopenable doors with a little help ( tutorials) & a little endevour everything is possible
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Marakana
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# Posted: 6 Sep 08 01:32
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Yes digital photography take a lot of advantages but i prefer analogic photography... i think that is more "romantic" while the digital technology is cold... Is more satisfied for me holdind in my hands photograph than just watching them on a screen :/ But for me analogic photography is too much expensive! I use it only for B/W photos.
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Jan Hemels
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# Posted: 7 Sep 08 13:49 - Edited by: Jan Hemels
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Marakana I do not agree that digital photography is cold. It can be if over processed! And you can still print a digital one if you like something in your hands or on the wall!
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