have digital camera technologies trivialized the photograph?

[spaceman]

??????

 

[Alone]

In a word? No.

 

[olds]

<--- Digital and Video Cameras

 

[venkman]

nah, if you have a really good DC you can get a really good photo. It just makes it easier for us amateurs to take vacation/party pictures without spending a fortune or worrying about film.

 

[XZeroII]

nope

 

[IronWing]

If one is motivated, digital cameras make it easier to become a much better photographer more quickly. It takes a lot of practice and thinking to become a good photographer and with digital one has the freedom to take thousands of photos w/o breaking the bank. Also, one can learn a lot about what worked and what didn't by reading the EXIF information on each photo.

As venkman stated, the former Instamatic crowd also gets better results with digital as well so everyone is happy.

 

[GoingUp]

I read a great article several years ago about how we are losing a bit of ourselves by using digital because then none of the bad pictures come out like they did years ago with film.

Let me try to dig it up....

 

[Chaotic42]

A great photograph is great, regardless of what you used to take it. Same goes with a bad photograph. Anything that puts more cameras into more hands will get us more great photographs, and there's nothing wrong with that.

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: venkman
nah, if you have a really good DC you can get a really good photo. It just makes it easier for us amateurs to take vacation/party pictures without spending a fortune or worrying about film.

You can take great photographs with even a cheap digital camera if you know what you're doing. Hell.. I've seen some studio quality shots taken with a 3MP PowerShot that blew me away.

 

[episodic]

yes

 

[sdifox]

I think so since you don't see the crappy ones as much now.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Photographs were trivial to start with if the only thing keeping them so special was the relative difficulty involved in producing them.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob

Originally posted by: venkman
nah, if you have a really good DC you can get a really good photo. It just makes it easier for us amateurs to take vacation/party pictures without spending a fortune or worrying about film.

You can take great photographs with even a cheap digital camera if you know what you're doing. Hell.. I've seen some studio quality shots taken with a 3MP PowerShot that blew me away.

ive got a 3M powershot that ive gotten some pretty nice photos out of...but id really like something newer. sometimes some shots would be better if they werent grainy-ish, as i like landscape and scenic photos