Camera or Photohrapher - Ha!

[fxk]

After reading this article on the Rob Galbraith site, I just had to stir the pot one more time. Call it starting a bar fight, and walking out. Whatever.

So the gauntlet thrown down:
It is the photographer, and the camera is but a tiny part of the equation, if at all.

Read the article below all the way through, and see if you agree or disagree.

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-6463-7191

I'm simply blown away just thinking where the digital world was a mere 10 to 15 years ago. Blown away!!

Chime in - I'm especially interested in responses that still maintain it is the camera that makes the picture. I'm absolutely sure that we, as adults and photographers, can have an interesting dialog that does not degenerate into - well - non-adult, non-photographer rhetoric.

Have fun - I know I will!

[Karl C]

Sigh...this topic comes up at least once a week.

And the same arguments are presented each time...

[FlyingPhotog]

Very interesting article.

Sometimes with film, you don't know for sure what you got. Seems like the earliest days of the dSLR were the same.

I dunno about the Camera Vs Photographer argument but one thing stands out from Rob's piece: Back in the day, if you didn't get the shot, you definately had something to blame other than yourself!! ;)

[fxk]

Sigh...this topic comes up at least once a week.

And the same arguments are presented each time...

Yeah, I know. I just felt a little ... mischievous.:evil: - well, maybe a lot. Please forgive me for that!

If nothing else, the article quoted is a good history lesson. My first introduction to "real digital" was a Nikon school thing, and Nick Didlick was one of the presenters. He set the hook, and reeled me in, almost without a fight.