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theonlinephotographer.typepad.com - 22 days ago
Mastery in Digital Photography
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The digital revolution—mostly an enabling phenomenon—has had a few downsides for me. It disrupted my personal photography, by bringing to an unplanned end twenty or so years of work in 35mm B&W. (I wish I'd been more aware that that was what was happening when it happened.) It disrupted my ...

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The Problem Remains the Same
Musings on Photography — ... and here. It’s true. Technical mastery is hard, and it does not help with the rate of advancement in manufacture of camera gear is so rapid that your mastery doesn’t last long before you need to refresh it. ...

Mastery in Digital Photography – Mike Johnston (The Online Photographer)
Photo News Today — ... (used), try them for a while, maybe write about them, and then resell them for more or less what I purchased them for. The product cycles in digital are too quick for that—by the time cameras show up on the used market, nobody’s interested in reading about them any more, and the risk of substantial loss while "holding" them even for a short time can be unacceptably large.    — Mike Johnston Source and Read More: theonlinephotographer.typepad.com ...

ku # 643 / man & nature # 255-57 ~ I've had enough of this crap
Journal — ... Weed + grass • click to embiggenThere's an entry over at TOP - a site that I don't read much anymore since it went to really focusing on gear - that addresses the fact that in the digital age ... ...