[rollei_list] Re: Scanning
- From: David Sadowski <dsadowski@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:19:52 -0500
Today, more people have access to photography than ever before, either
through digital cameras or computers. There are some people who don't like
this fact, because it does have the effect of making a photograph less
valuable than previously. But the process of opening up photography to more
and more people has been happening continuously since at least 1839.
It's hard to even buy a telephone nowadays that doesn't have a camera.
At every step of the way, there has been someone who didn't like this
expansion of access to photography, whether it was the 35mm Leica, the box
camera, the Polaroid camera, digital, or whatever.
Anyone with a camera can call themselves a professional photographer, and
the people with credentials don't like the competition from "mom with a
digital" or whatever.
At the same time, while there are surely more photographs being taken
nowadays, chances are there are also more being saved and preserved than
ever before. The challenge of preserving photos for future generations is I
am sure a solvable one and it will be solved.
As for my "war" analogy, digital has displaced film in the marketplace,
largely, just as Germany displaced the French army and occupied France in
1940 via the Blitzkreig. But I am sure film will always be with us, just as
long as there are people who want to use it... just as there are still
people today who want to take Daguerrotypes.
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