I don't think Isaac, that it's necessarily the "dumbing down" of photographers
that everyone is bemoaning, it's more the dumbing down of people in general. By
playing to the, as Shel would say, "lowest common denominator", the consumer has
been trained not even to ask question. "What does ISO mean?" "How does that
affect my photographs?" You know, general intelligence gathering...sad really.
Kind of the death of curiosity...
Norm
Isaac Crawford wrote:
> <snip> If people
> are going to bemoan the "dumbing down" of photographers, they should
> look at the camera manufacturers, they are the ones promising that you
> don't need to know about photography to make a good picture. The hell of
> it is that they are right for many people. We all hate the Rebels and
> N65s and ZX-50s, but guess what, they can produce excellent pictures
> with the dial set on the smily face! They don't know squat about the
> technique of photography, they just need to know which film to put in
> the camera, and Kodak will tell them.
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