Don't worry, be snappy: Stop complaining about your digital camera<article>
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When one has done something long enough (and, for the sake of this particular argument, let’s say
living can be reasonably counted among them) there’s a tendency to take the long view—we have some notion of where we’ve been as well as how things are now. Recent complaints about the state of Apple and photography have compelled me to take a journey down the historical highway in the hope of gaining some perspective on just where we stand in regard to taking and making images with our cameras.</p><h2>Divine digital</h2>
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Unfair though it may be to compare yesterday’s picture-snapping process to hiking 17 miles uphill in the snow, I’d like to put in a word for digital as it pertains to photography. As you old-timers recall, at one time our cameras housed strips of cellulose acetate or polyester covered in light sensitive material. When the shutter opened, that material captured an impression of the light shone on it. Before you could view your pictures, you had to remove the film, run it through a development process, and then create printed images from the negatives.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2454372/stop-complaining-about-your-digital-camera.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Don't worry, be snappy: Stop complaining about your digital camera
