デジカメについて思うこと

Flickrに書きなぐったものの写しっす。

"today's invention, tomorrow's ???"

I love film camera. If I have to give up either film camera or digital camera, I must say I'd give up digital in a heart beet.

I prefer film camera maybe because the whole ritual-like process of taking picture and developing it. Maybe that's the full metal classic construction of the camera itself or great bokeh with fast primes, or the entire idea of inconvenience associated with film photography that inspires and motivates me.

That all been said, I do not hate digital camera. I enjoy it, appreciate it, and adore it time to time. But the ability to instantly review, delete and lack of developing process (well, unless you shoot RAW) are maybe turning me off often. And maybe because I'm a graphic designer and doing extensive photoshop works and extreme mockup creation pretty much everyday, I feel digital picture manipulation somewhat not "hobby-worthy." Graphic design itself was (and probably still is) my hobby and that became my job, I do my best to keep hobby hobby. I want to enjoy it away from my everyday duty.

In the entire history of photography, digital photography is really young. And as an art medium, it's a tiny tiny baby. Probably a lot of photographers won't even accept digital camera as an art tool. They would just say "film camera is for art, digital camera is a tool for recording." I too sometime feel that way.

But that makes me think. When film camera and the film itself was invented, people, especially fine artists said "that's not an art. it's just a recording tool" and photography didn't get accepted as an art form for quite good amount of time.

I wonder if this phenomenon will happen to digital camera and digital photography some day. Maybe one day, a 3D hologram recording device will be invented. Then people will be saying "what?! are you still using digital camera that can only take 2D still image??" and old fashioned people will be saying "Holo-cam is a recording device, and classic digital camera is an art tool. I just love that digital noise." :D

And people will be bidding on a vintage 20 MP panasonic digital camera that's listed in antique category and searching for long dead SD cards and readers.

I still love and continue shooting film, but I'd really like to befriend with digital cameras more...

Cooler, rainy San Francisco weekend ahead. Have a great weekend everyone!

ケイゾク

あけおめっす。

またブログあいたなあ。。ここのところ、どうにもこうにも集中でいないというか、いろんな考えや行動がまとまらない日々が続いてて、そんな中でとっても大きなプレゼンが迫っているのでなんとかそれにしがみつく感じで毎日過ごしておりました。 なんとか立て直しつつあります。そろそろ加速しないとなあ。

今年の写真に関するニューイヤーレゾリューションが決まりました。35mm/白黒で、クロップなしの写真を撮って、最終的には今年中にコーヒーブック的な写真集を作ってみようと思います。Cartier-Bresson的にフィルムのフレーム影を残す感じで。特に題材は考えずに、Seinfeldのジョージよろしく、「Photo about nothing!」な感じで行きます。