On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 01:59:24PM -0500, George Sinos wrote: > ... they weren't that good. > > <http://photofocus.com/2013/04/17/stop-romanticizing-about-the-good-old-film-days-they-werent-that-good/> > > Whether or not you agree with him, it's a fun read. > And he didn't even touch on the fun of dust or waterspots on the negatives.
Thinking about the differences between film and digital and how film tends to give higher keeper ratios (albeit with lower technical standards), I came up with an idea for a device that would not only help improve the keeper ratio of digital photos, but would emulate a critical aspect of the film experience. A small shredder, or incinerator, that attaches to your camera. Every time you want to press the shutter, you feed it a dollar bill. That would certainly get people to think carefully about each shot that they take. Actually, a variation on that might be a good exercise in a photo class. Tell the students that every frame they shoot will cost them a quarter, the money collected at the end of the day could be donated to charity, or pizza and beer for the critque session. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
