Just about every decision we make, I am learning quickly, has a cost-benefit ratio that we must also consider. The ease and instant gratification of digital photography is countered by the simple fact that a few years from now your images on CD's, DVD's or even your hard drives can be nothing more than digital detritus. Poof! Gone.
Sorry to be such a Luddite about this, but check off reason #237 to continue using film. Any rebuttals?
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dispatx says
why number 237?
and why a luddite?
yes, there is a cost-benefit ratio – such as, for example, only being able to have one copy of your photographs rather than many.
I’m neither a strong supporter of digital nor of ‘traditional’ photography. However, part of living – apart from the ratio assessments – must be to live in amongst the tools and the fruits of our labour, and forge the future in which we don’t just lose images, if that is what is most important to us.
This idea that the neuron’s twitching can stake a claim in the future underpins what we’re doing in the most recent theme at dispatx.com : Detail of Detail, the way the very small can influence the very large, and vice versa. How do your decisions about film, about the technology you accept, shape you? And shape you again?
dispatx says
why number 237?
and why a luddite?
yes, there is a cost-benefit ratio – such as, for example, only being able to have one copy of your photographs rather than many.
I’m neither a strong supporter of digital nor of ‘traditional’ photography. However, part of living – apart from the ratio assessments – must be to live in amongst the tools and the fruits of our labour, and forge the future in which we don’t just lose images, if that is what is most important to us.
This idea that the neuron’s twitching can stake a claim in the future underpins what we’re doing in the most recent theme at dispatx.com : Detail of Detail, the way the very small can influence the very large, and vice versa. How do your decisions about film, about the technology you accept, shape you? And shape you again?