We condemn a lot of things when it does not seem to fit into our way of
doing things.

I beleive that if one can live with the old or conventional way of doing
things and are more comfortable that way, like hitching up the team of
horses and heading into town to pick up your groceries and supplies, I
suppose this is what one should continue to do. Of course this would
make great subject matter for photography (Film or Digital).
I always thought I would like to set up a town that would be from the
18th or 19th century, and everything would have to be the same as the
era, no hydro, no air conditioning, no TV, Radio, computers etc., but
there is only one big problem no Cameras? We would have to learn to
paint pictures to keep the memories of our visit.

Getting back to the real topic modern photography, now, the so called
"real photographers" shun digital cameras. Going back to the seventies
the "real photographers" did not want to accept the automatic cameras,
before that Medium and Large format cameras were the only accepted
cameras, then came Autofocus in the mid '80's, that was also not
allowed, until the early to mid '90's the real photographers are getting
older and seeing the autofocus cameras were getting better and our
eye-sight getting worse, so we gladly accept the new Autofocus cameras.
I suppose we will also accept digital photography eventually.
Like the old saying "If it's not broken don't fix it"

That's my opinion and I'm sticking with it, "Digital Photography is
"GREAT".

Helge



DM wrote:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/thi...p?story=565781
Top photographers condemn digital age
Experts are warning traditional photography could become a museum craft,
write Nicholas Pyke and Andrew Johnson, but some greats are up in arms
26 September 2004