A friend Steve Smith sent me an article on digital photography from wired.com. The article is about digital photopros and photo(shop) realism. Keeping in mind that the article was written in 1995, the technology they are talking about is brand new and now its the norm. It only took the first paragraph to get me thinking.
When President Clinton went sailing off Martha's Vineyard with singer James Taylor last August, Associated Press photographer Stephan Savoia took pictures of the seafaring celebrities from a boat 130 yards away. Nothing unusual about that, except that when Savoia finished shooting he didn't develop his film - he had no film to develop. Instead, he removed a pocket-sized hard drive from the side of his camera, slipped it into a docking station attached to a PowerBook, and reviewed all 30 of his shots on the laptop's screen. After selecting his favorite image, he fine-tuned its colors, wrote a caption, and then, using a cellular phone, transmitted both image and caption to a central computer at AP's New York headquarters. Even though Savoia was slowed by bouts of nausea as he worked in the cabin of the pitching boat, the process took him only 15 minutes. The photograph was in newsrooms around the country long before Clinton ever reached shore.
- Jacques Leslie
This is a perfect example of what transitions photography has gone through. The photography industry is interested the newest, fastest product on the market. Now that the digital camera, more specifically the digital SLR, has become the new standard in cameras, all equipment revolving around it are only one step behind. ..."he removed a pocket-sized hard drive from the side of his camera"... pocket-sized hard drive? That is amazing when thinking that in the 80's a portable hard drive was the 5 1/4" floppy disk. Now there are portable hard drives the size of a quarter. The drives also go up to several gigs of memory.
For now, this is one of several photography accessories I will be talking about. As i said before, the photography industry is interested in the newest, fastest product on the market. Even with the obsticales Stephan Savoia was able to shoot 30 frames, upload them to his laptop, render the photos and send them to a central computer by phone in only 15 minutes. As said by Bob Dylan, "The times are a-changin'. "
When President Clinton went sailing off Martha's Vineyard with singer James Taylor last August, Associated Press photographer Stephan Savoia took pictures of the seafaring celebrities from a boat 130 yards away. Nothing unusual about that, except that when Savoia finished shooting he didn't develop his film - he had no film to develop. Instead, he removed a pocket-sized hard drive from the side of his camera, slipped it into a docking station attached to a PowerBook, and reviewed all 30 of his shots on the laptop's screen. After selecting his favorite image, he fine-tuned its colors, wrote a caption, and then, using a cellular phone, transmitted both image and caption to a central computer at AP's New York headquarters. Even though Savoia was slowed by bouts of nausea as he worked in the cabin of the pitching boat, the process took him only 15 minutes. The photograph was in newsrooms around the country long before Clinton ever reached shore.
- Jacques Leslie
This is a perfect example of what transitions photography has gone through. The photography industry is interested the newest, fastest product on the market. Now that the digital camera, more specifically the digital SLR, has become the new standard in cameras, all equipment revolving around it are only one step behind. ..."he removed a pocket-sized hard drive from the side of his camera"... pocket-sized hard drive? That is amazing when thinking that in the 80's a portable hard drive was the 5 1/4" floppy disk. Now there are portable hard drives the size of a quarter. The drives also go up to several gigs of memory.
For now, this is one of several photography accessories I will be talking about. As i said before, the photography industry is interested in the newest, fastest product on the market. Even with the obsticales Stephan Savoia was able to shoot 30 frames, upload them to his laptop, render the photos and send them to a central computer by phone in only 15 minutes. As said by Bob Dylan, "The times are a-changin'. "
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