The future of digital photography!

[ash]

Do you often wonder what gadgets and gizmo's will come in the next ten years?
The pace is amazing.
Thomas my 6 year old son is already advising me on position and viewpoints. which is good
Ok he does not understand the basics of f stop and all that stuff, but is that important in this day and age, when the camera does it all for you.
If you post an image on getty, they dont ask for your crudentials, if its a good pic it will sell.
I think technology is overtaking capability, and it is getting harder to stand out from the crowd, so you have to have the eye, really exel in your work to be noticed.

Ide like your thoughts on this and wat type of camera our siblings will be using 10 years from now!

cheers
Ash.

[Pol]

Re: The future of digital photography!

Do you often wonder what gadgets and gizmo's will come in the next ten years?
The pace is amazing.
Thomas my 6 year old son is already advising me on position and viewpoints. which is good
Ok he does not understand the basics of f stop and all that stuff, but is that important in this day and age, when the camera does it all for you.
If you post an image on getty, they dont ask for your crudentials, if its a good pic it will sell.
I think technology is overtaking capability, and it is getting harder to stand out from the crowd, so you have to have the eye, really exel in your work to be noticed.

Ide like your thoughts on this and wat type of camera our siblings will be using 10 years from now!

cheers
Ash.

You say "Ok he does not understand the basics of f stop and all that stuff, but is that important in this day and age, when the camera does it all for you."

Well I'd suggest it IS important to understand the basics otherwise we can never really express ourselves to our fuller potential. Not just in photography but in many other things too. Progress only comes with understanding.

Technology can't ever fully overtake capability because capable human beings (with more than just a basic undertanding) are those who actually push the technology ahead ... if you see what I mean.

Yes, I agree technology is moving forward at a very fast pace and it's difficult to keep up with developments. I think perhaps many people have got themselves into serious debt trying to keep ahead buying the latests gadgets and gizmos on credit rather than living within their means - but perhaps that's another topic for another time and another place.

I'm sometimes concerned that perhaps there isn't enough 'hard copy' being stored. Not enough good quality hard copy prints being archived. It's all well and good storing files on hard disks, CDs, DVDs etc ... but how many people collected piles of vinyl LPs, Cassettes and video tapes just to find they've become defunct and the means of playing back those discs and tapes etc is disappearing.

I also think it's important that people know how to seek out information without depending on electronic sources. To know how and here to find hard copy information - documents, archived paper files, how to use a library - how to think for themselves and then communicate their thoughts effectively.

I really don't know what sort of camera the next generation will be using in 10 years time. I only hope they can find sufficient good quality archived material, read, write, think for themselves, communictae effectively and know how to store and archive for the following generations. Because it'll be the ones who can and do that who will stand out from the crowd imo ... and hopefully survive whatever life throws at them too.

Sorry if that's all a bit of a sweeping generalisation but maybe there's enough there to get the ball rolling?


Pol

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Re: The future of digital photography!

I also think it's important that people know how to seek out information without depending on electronic sources. To know how and here to find hard copy information - documents, archived paper files, how to use a library - how to think for themselves and then communicate their thoughts effectively.

Unfortunately this requires a certain amount of social skills which I think technology is killing off. Much easier for the young of today to press a few buttons as opposed to physically transporting themselves to a library and, heaven forbid, having to make their verbal request for information understood.
Sorry for digressing a bit ash.

Your 6 year old son could well be carrying a camera mounted in a button hole or embedded into his wristwatch when he reaches adulthood.

[ash]

Re: The future of digital photography!

Some interesting points.