No doubt about it – the best camera I've ever used is the one in my iPhone.
I’ve been a life-long photographer, as was my father before me, and I’ve used a lot of cameras. I still have my first – a little Univex – and my father’s first boxy Kodak. I enjoyed the chemistry of the darkroom. Took photos all through high school. Research projects in college. A summer as a news photographer. Scenics and family shots.
I’ve used 35 mm, and twin-lens Rolleflex, and tiny little cameras and press cameras. I switched over to digital cameras when those displaced film. (So did my Dad). I now edit photos on my computer and print them on an HP printer.
The iPhone camera beats them all. If I could just figure out how to hold it.
And I still wonder – what technology is about to become obsolete? What group of technicians won’t find employment? Like the farriers, the coopers, the blacksmiths, radio repairmen, the processors of Kodak film? The coal miners….
Fasten your seat belts. The future has us where it hurts.
Dac Crossley
January 16, 2017
“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.” – Gen. James Mattis, quoted in TheDailyBeast.com.
thanks for sharing you beautiful shot of the deer in the woods and sharing you camera/photography history.
When I decided to try digital I reached to some photographers for their guidance and suggestions.
Jim Morgenthaler who I had met through his UGA job as photographer I reached out to and we met for lunch at ZIM's in early 2003.
the end of that 2 hour lunch discussion
I went out and bought an
Olympus digital camera and all the toys that went with it and multiple media cards (the type that were the latest technology then)
paid $800
my plan was to buy a $300 digital camera.
One thing Jim sold me on digital with was
how much did you spend to process the 100 roles of print film in 2001 from your trip.
Hmmm?
Also he encouraged me to ALWAYS buy a camera that was technically smarter than me and learn through using it.
That I have done now for 14 years.
Posted by: alan | January 17, 2017 at 10:02 PM
Beautiful picture. A walk in the woods. Hold
that image. Future is unknown - it always has
been. Now it's on "fast forward" ! Think
positively, try to be optimistic and above all
stay curious....work your tail off. Reserve
time for contemplation and reflection - Many
good ideas are hatched in quieter times. We
are all on the same bus & we take care of each other.
Posted by: Jan Okey | January 17, 2017 at 03:24 PM
Lovely picture. Inviting path!
Posted by: Shirley J White | January 17, 2017 at 12:56 PM