Touche.
On Jun 6, 2004, at 2:57 PM, Shawn K. wrote:
Yes, of course you are all exactly right. It's funny though, I've never
seen a shot as good as this one in an online gallery despite all the new
gadgets:
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/A/adams/ adams_clearing_winter_storm_fu
ll.html
And then there is this shot, of course, the person is clearly using an
inferior camera, I mean look at it, I can think of a million ways USM would
have made this 10x better:
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/A/adams/adams_mckinley_full.html
Or, if only the camera had automatically scratch your rear while you scratch
your head and groan mode, this shot could have been vastly improved:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ansel/gallery/gal_ansel_10.html
Now, I dare you to find a better shot here:
http://www.pbase.com/galleries
Have fun!!!
-Shawn
-----Original Message----- From: John Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 3:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: photography vs cameras
I knew _someone_ was going to say that. I had a good idea who, too.
Personally I think there is a far closer parallel between contemporary
image capture technology and the new oven we've just installed. We'll
use most of the capabilities - different 'exposure modes' (bake, broil,
convection, temperature probe, and various combinations thereof), the
faster frame rate (or is that double exposure?) possible with a twin
oven, etc. There are a few bells and whistles we'll never use; it has
a handful of 'green' cooking modes (and even has 'exposure compensation'
in case you're cooking in unusual conditions, or if your recipes were
developed working with a stove with an inaccurate temperature setting).
Sure, it's possible to produce great meals using a wood-fired stove.
But it's a whole lot easier to take advantage of what modern technology
offers. The best dishes still come from someone who can use experience
to know when to stray from the rote following of a recipe. But there's
little you can do with the old equipment that you can't do with the new,
and a great deal of new opportunities the new technology provides.
And maybe there's a corollary in contemporary photo imaging <LOL>
Shel Belinkoff
[Original Message] From: John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Many years (and a couple of kitchens) ago we bought a microwave oven that used magnetic cards to store cooking programs. You just picked the card you wanted, stuck it in the slot, and pushed "start". There was even a way to program your own cards. By the time we replaced it, some 15 years later, I don't think we'd ever used the capability. It was just easier to enter the time.
