The Tank Man photograph would not pass muster even by low-end cell phone standards today, but it's as powerful now as when it was shot. The conversation around cameras focuses on noise level, dynamic range, or lens sharpness - none of which are particularly critical traits for producing great photography. But yet that's where the conversation starts and stops. ![]() This guy with a crappy old iPhone 3GS has been taking better photos (and publishing them) than the bulk of people with 5D3's and 70-200 f/2.8's: Īnd this is part of the problem - it was never about detail, or more generally technical perfection. In the mean time there are many passionate photographers out there producing great work, with a variety tools, cheap to expensive, simple to complex. We'll start caring what they think when they start producing work. This group isn't good for much more than vociferous, highly-technical religion wars on the Internet. ![]() ![]() They're the ones who buy $10,000 worth of bodies and lenses but can never go beyond photos of their local park, or sharpness test charts in their basement. The people who get the most up in arms about the "purity" of photographic tools are also the ones producing the least work. "The other group are people who argue the details of a phase detection autofocus in the Canon DSLR and the 51 point field autofocus of the Nikon DSLR and can't believe that the handset makers are allowed to actually call these things 'cameras' in their advertisements."
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