At 23:52 25/08/2004, you wrote:
Everyone is now a photographer with their four to four zillion mp cameras
We survived the plate to celluloid revolution and the B&W to colour; the Box Brownie and the Instamatic (not to mention the Polaroid Swinger!) came and went. An old Pro told me 40 odd years ago that you couldn't make a living in this business any more; everyone has got a camera.
I would still defy any megapixeller to take a portrait like Karsh, a documentary landscape like J. Allan Cash, or even a marine study like Frank Beken -regardless of what equipment or technique they use, because it is still the photographer that does the biz, not the gear! Never mind the fact that their libraries of plates/negs are supporting their descendants very nicely - can you see our legacy of CDs/DVDs doing the same?
JC
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