Ecological impact?
+1 That's a real problem with all modern tech.
Ecological impact?
Ecological impact?
I think we're getting to a point where things are getting SOOOOOO good that it will soon be a question of diminishing returns. I already feel that way with my OMD and X-Pro and I think we're only a year or two away from having compacts nearly that good. Not that I'll never upgrade them but I can't think of what I'd really want either of them to do better than what they do currently, and until April of this year (when I bought both of them), I never felt that way - I always had a list of things I wished would be improved. Well, they have been...
I would not call film photography a downgrade..
in time film will be eradicated so while it isn't a waste of time, it won't have longevity. All the more reason to strike while there is time
batteries.
You guys have seen those "weather radios" that operate from cranking a handle to generate and store some energy....how about that feature on a camera? Kind of like you're winding the film.....LOL.
PDH,
Good point about digital storage media . . . it keeps changing. I don't know if I can even buy a card for my old D-550.
I'd never be so rash as to pledge "NO" new cameras in 2013, but I'd be pretty surprised if anything comes along that makes me want to replace either the X-Pro or OMD. There's an outside chance I could add a second small m43 body, but I doubt it. But if the advances in the compact market keep coming on the heels of the RX100, I could easily imagine getting another compact sometime next year. If not, I'm fine with the X10, really happy with it actually, but I anticipate some killer compacts coming along at some point in the next year or two...I'm feeling pretty content with what I've got these days. I think I'm going to stay with the same gear for a long time to come. No new cameras in 2013 and all that .
I'd never be so rash as to pledge "NO" new cameras in 2013, but I'd be pretty surprised if anything comes along that makes me want to replace ........
Lytro is digital, though. We will see a neat convergence of analog and digital if/when organic transistors and crossover tech becomes available, though.
well my tongue was somewhat in my cheek Kristen
now that's a point worth considering, but with a twist ... I too suspect that film will disappear in time, except as a sort of "renaissance fair" sort of activity ... but I also think that in - say - 100 years time, the only digital images from today that still exist will be the ones that have been printed; technology churn is so fast that I simply can't see jpegs, dngs cds, hard drives or whatever even existing in readable forms. There are already digital media made 20 or so years ago that can no longer be read, either from deterioration of the physical media or the lack of any devices on which they can be read.
So if you want your digital pictures to outlast you - print them.
yep, forgot to mention batteries. perhaps more likely than anything else to make a digital camera (or fully electronic film camera, come to that) good only as a museum piece
You guys have seen those "weather radios" that operate from cranking a handle to generate and store some energy....how about that feature on a camera? Kind of like you're winding the film.....LOL.
yep, forgot to mention batteries. perhaps more likely than anything else to make a digital camera (or fully electronic film camera, come to that) good only as a museum piece