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#1180. Week Links of Photography (19 Mar 2022)
By pascaljappy | News
When you chain-read the news in one sitting, to write a newsletter, trends become starkingly obvious. And if one has raised its hand far more than others this week, it’s the return of film!! New film stock is being released, lenses are being reviewed from a film-shooter perspective, film cameras are more sought after, artists are thriving on film. Get ready for a celluloid tsunami!
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Another, informative article Pascal. I must get around to sell my Nikon D850 and Zeiss Milvus 18 & 85 ( I know it a great lens) but I just don’t use it. Bought it on a wim. Take care Dallas
Good luck with the sales, Dallas. A lens is only as good as the images it makes 🙂 If you don’t use it, there’s no point in keeping it. That was my reasoning for selling Audrey in spite of all the good things I’ve written about it. Cheers!
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Naaah! I had my time with film. In what little time I have left in my life, I want to do something different – not more of the same. So I gave practically all of my film negatives & prints to a friend of mine in London, 30 years ago.
Digi right now – and I’m still keeping funds aside so that I can splurge on a full frame Foveon sensor camera when SIGMA finally puts it on the market.
Dig is hot – there’s A-MAZ-ING stuff out there, from all sorts of manufacturers! Moi – je préfère Nikon. But there’s a huge range – plenty enough to suit any taste, any budget.
The big “block” for me with film is that I like to print my photos, and I’ve never been able to set up a colour printing arrangement for home/personal production of quality colour prints, from film. So moving into digi opened a whole new, enormous, exciting universe for me!
The world championship photos are a fertile paddock, with heaps of images to plow through.
The idea of robotic photography is on the cusp – why do we even bother? and the answer is, now matter how good the robot, robots can’t have “personality – taste – instinct’ that go to make up a human mind. They can be taught (programmed) to do things, things we’ve thought of and MAYBE even things we haven’t. But it can never have “the human touch”. Empathy – you can teach a robot what it OUGHT to feel, but never what it does – simply because it doesn’t.
Macro – endlessly absorbing – takes you to a whole new universe, a whole new way of thinking.
Infra red – maybe this is coming to a house near you, sooner than you think – CCTV is easily affordable and you can monitor your house by remote, on your cell phone. When lights dim, you can STILL do it, using B&W/infra red. For more artistic applications, of course, infra red film takes over. This stuff is heading for the high country these days. You can get cat doors that recognise YOUR cat[s], by their microchips, and ONLY let yours through the door. And you can monitor their movements from your cellphone, wherever you are. Next is spying on your kids – making sure their doing their homework, and not playing video games. Or is there an international treaty now, to protect children from tyrannical parents? Where will it all end? Not on the pages of DS, anyway.
Question: why are you in a proscIutto factory photographing their inventory stock?
It’s funny. We (old timers) have had our lot of film, so crave the convenience and broad features of digital. Younger generations have known nothing but digital and crave film for its original look and entertaining process.
Wow, spying on your kids seems quite unethical !! I hope people don’t do that.
Infrared has already led to scandals in the past. Remember those video cameras that had sensitivity deep into the infrared ? Manufacturers didn’t realise that some fabrics are a bit transparent to IR, so those cameras produced slightly revealing videos of people at the beach for instance.
Those robots seem to be used for “standard” real estate photographs. But soon we’ll see them creating good art. Of course, there will probably be no consciousness of the process, making the programmer the real artist. That is the topic of a coming article, by the way 🙂
LOL – “spying on your kids” – well, It’d take a lot, to persuade me to do anything of the kind! But I guess some will do it. I was “my own person” at a very young age, far TOO young, frankly – and I’d tend to give any kid of mine far too much rope, because of that. But other people make their own choices, I guess. AND have to live with the consequences of them!
Never knew infra red was quite that interesting – ya live & learn!
I’ll keep my gambling chips cool, on the subject of what they can achieve with robots. For all our faults and failings, humans can add something that machines can never have.
We’re probably some wat away from true robot artists. Particularly as everytime humanity makes any progress it is first used as a weapon, then as a way to wring as much more money as possibly out of it, then possibly do good … We have a long way to go to outgrow our animal origins, it seems.
But there are some interesting breakthroughs in AI that will eventually lead to fun applications 🙂