On Wed, Apr 17, 2013, Larry Colen wrote: > > 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.
Maybe it's because I started with film, but I still think that way a lot. And it's even still true to some extent because processing images takes time. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html -- 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.
