Future of cameras and lenses?

[davidedric]

An article from the UK's New Scientist magazine:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...l#.VSLJGfnF98E

Posted for interest

Dave

[dje]

An article from the UK's New Scientist magazine:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...l#.VSLJGfnF98E

Posted for interest

Dave

Dave I would have liked to read the article but as a non-subscriber I seem to only get access to the first two paragraphs.

Dave

[IzzieK]

Same here...

[James G]

I have a pdf copy of the magazine... I think the article is Photo Finish ...copied it to my SkyDrive
Try this link...

http://1drv.ms/1JjFrnx

[dje]

Thanks James, will have a look.

Dave

[davidedric]

Thanks, James. I .naively thought that if I posted the link you could read it

[Steve6D]

That was an interesting read.

As the article states, though, people have been predicting the death of the camera for years. Yet, we still have them, and manufacturers keep developing and releasing them, stores continue stocking them and we continue buying them.

Personally, I'm like the woman they mentioned early on in the piece. I like the feel of my camera. I like hearing the shutter. I like feeling the weight of the rig. I like everything about it.

Photography is both my profession and my hobby. It's fun. Change it too much and we run the risk of it not being fun. Then I have to find a new job.

And I don't wanna' do that...

[Downrigger]

Thanks for steering us to this - interesting, and oddly bothersome. Well written peek at (for most of us) an unimagined future.

On the other hand, over the last (digital) decade or two the photographer's technology for capture has expanded so much, and the treatments available to him/her for altering the image data to suit his/her imagination have so increased, that to some extent the author seems to me to describe extension of an existing continuum rather than a pending transformation.

I feel strongly, though, that there will always be such a thing as a great image, that such will not be commonplace, and that those who make them will continue to be committed, gifted, and skillful.