Gen Z ... digital cameras are back in fashion
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A really good read.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64512059
Now note I am not Gen Z ... I don't want to give my age away but I am guessing I am L or M or given optimism Gen K.
Talking of which my late father in law was called Kenneth and he left us his trusty Sony DCR 60TRVe up in the attic with some dusty DV tapes.
It is just lovely. So many buttons ! That still work... the good old days.
I'm having a few problems with the battery and charging but as per all old stuff gradually bending it to my will. Why should Gen Z have all the fun? We should have throwback March where we all get our out kit out and see how it performs in 2023....
I can't do that yet, need to buy a cheap Firewire card off Aliexpress to transport it to bits and bytes.
I've got it half working. I am retroaspectly admiring anyone who had to look down an eyepiece to get the shot rather than a big old LCD screen...
What's your old stuff you still use ?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64512059
Now note I am not Gen Z ... I don't want to give my age away but I am guessing I am L or M or given optimism Gen K.
Talking of which my late father in law was called Kenneth and he left us his trusty Sony DCR 60TRVe up in the attic with some dusty DV tapes.
It is just lovely. So many buttons ! That still work... the good old days.
I'm having a few problems with the battery and charging but as per all old stuff gradually bending it to my will. Why should Gen Z have all the fun? We should have throwback March where we all get our out kit out and see how it performs in 2023....
I can't do that yet, need to buy a cheap Firewire card off Aliexpress to transport it to bits and bytes.
I've got it half working. I am retroaspectly admiring anyone who had to look down an eyepiece to get the shot rather than a big old LCD screen...
What's your old stuff you still use ?
Edited by ColinGreaves on Friday 17th February 14:19
Funny you should mention this.
I made a film for a client recently that had scene panning and running along a mantlepiece with framed photos from the 80s of the main subject of the story. I took the photos of the Actor's 'real' kids on my D850 and then spent the best part of a day tweaking them in Lightroom and Photoshop to make them look authentically 'old'. Made a good job in the end but it occurred to me after that I still have my old Yashica Rangefinder camera that I used in the 80s that still works perfectly. Should have used that!
Taking the theory to the extreme, there was a photographer called Josh Paul that captured some really interested shots at an F1 race using a 100 year old plate camera:
I'm a huge fan of image tech. I'm a magpie when it comes to new gear but I do also think image making has become 'too' good in many respects. I was watching a 6K demo reel on a TV in John Lewis and whilst one can marvel at the colour and detail.... it somehow lacked emotion.
I do think as photographers and videographers, we get too wrapped up in the tech. Fights can break out in pub car parks over whether Nikon or Canon are best (which as every right minded, heterosexual male will tell you is of course Nikon
), or you stand accused of being a communist if you use anything Adobe and the like. The downside to this is that we risk loosing sight of the bigger picture which is the picture.
After all, some of the most important and striking photographs ever taken were often taken on crap, old-tech mechanical cameras.
I made a film for a client recently that had scene panning and running along a mantlepiece with framed photos from the 80s of the main subject of the story. I took the photos of the Actor's 'real' kids on my D850 and then spent the best part of a day tweaking them in Lightroom and Photoshop to make them look authentically 'old'. Made a good job in the end but it occurred to me after that I still have my old Yashica Rangefinder camera that I used in the 80s that still works perfectly. Should have used that!
Taking the theory to the extreme, there was a photographer called Josh Paul that captured some really interested shots at an F1 race using a 100 year old plate camera:
I'm a huge fan of image tech. I'm a magpie when it comes to new gear but I do also think image making has become 'too' good in many respects. I was watching a 6K demo reel on a TV in John Lewis and whilst one can marvel at the colour and detail.... it somehow lacked emotion.
I do think as photographers and videographers, we get too wrapped up in the tech. Fights can break out in pub car parks over whether Nikon or Canon are best (which as every right minded, heterosexual male will tell you is of course Nikon
), or you stand accused of being a communist if you use anything Adobe and the like. The downside to this is that we risk loosing sight of the bigger picture which is the picture. After all, some of the most important and striking photographs ever taken were often taken on crap, old-tech mechanical cameras.
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