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It’s not the camera, it’s the photographer?
Aren’t you tired of that old cliche?
People always say this especially when some people are talking about a new/upcoming camera.
If all photographers in the days of very large boxy cameras have that philosophy, we won’t have digital sensors, autofocus, compact bodies, low-noise film, accurate shutters, accurate light meters today, right?
It’s not the camera, it’s the photographer?
Why not both?
I mean, however great a photographer you are, you can’t shoot a sports event with that plain ole pinhole box camera with manual focus right?
What do you think of that cliche?
And however great a photographer you are, you can’t make a crap glass take sharp pictures like a pro-grade one, right?
The cliche accurately describes the situation.
The advanced cameras we have today aren’t better because the do something wonderfully new, their popularity is because they are more convenient. Look back over history of photography and you will find that images that are excellent today were excellent when they were taken and will be excellent in the future.
Certainly, photographers are limited by their equipment, but that is true for all things and in all fields. The truth is that the technology that many seem to find so awesome is awesome because of it’s convenience. There isn’t anything in digital that I can’t get starting with film. Do I need auto focus? Nope, and in fact use my split screen grid a lot. Do I need auto exposure? Nope, didn’t have it with my old Leica. As far as the whiz bang things you can do digitally with photoshop, etc., once I scan in a print or slide, we’re on equal footing.
“If all photographers in the days of very large boxy cameras have that philosophy [that it's the photographer, not the camera], we won’t have digital sensors, autofocus, compact bodies, low-noise film, accurate shutters, accurate light meters today, right?”
Wrong. All of that comes as a refinement to the technology and photography has always advanced. We would have fine grained film because that is what was wanted. We’ve had accurate shutters for a long, long time. It’s part of the way we get the exposures we want. We’ve had accurate light meters for decades, the same with TTL metering. Everything you mention comes about from the desire of photographers to make images. Faster films came about because photographers wanted to take pictures under lower light conditions.
Give a good photographer a camera and understanding how it all comes together, they can make great images.
Take the crap piece of glass (lens) that you mention. It will work just fine if the image I’m going to create doesn’t require sharpness.
Cover a sporting event with a box camera and fixed focus (they don’t have focussing)? Sure. It won’t be the same coverage that I would get with my Canon and lenses, but knowing about the camera I can get some good images. I could do some great stuff on the side lines and by getting behind the goal, ditto. Knowing the characteristics of the equipment AND knowing how it’s limitations can be used creatively, I will get some good pictures.
Cliche or not, any one can take a picture, but a photographer makes his,or hers. It is the person wielding the camera, not the camera itself that is important. Technology only makes somethings things possible that weren’t before, or more convenient, but it doesn’t create images.
It’s not really a point that can be argued.
Vance
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Fuji Digital Cameras — Understanding Fujifilm and Fuji Finepix
To the ordinary consumers, Fujifilm Holdings Corporation is best known for its photographic and imaging products like Fuji digital cameras. This Tokyo-based company, however, is much more than that. Fujifilm has also distinguished itself in office equipment products, flat panel display, medical systems, and life sciences. The company counts on 223 subsidiaries and over 70,000 employees worldwide for the manufacture, distribution and product research.
In 2007, Fujifilm emerged no. 17 in the listing of companies with the most patents registered in the USA, an indication of the company’s vast technological armory in optics, digital imaging, thin film coating and fine chemical applications. With almost $25 billion in global revenues, Fujifilm has consistently ranked among the world’s largest companies, occupying the 142nd slot on Fortune Magazine Top 400 and holding the 217th place on BusinessWeek’s Global 1000 list.
Formerly operating as Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., the company was the prime-mover of the development of Japan’s first electronic computer, called FUJIC, which saw completion in 1956. In more contemporary times, Fujinon lenses helped shape moviemaking history with a Fujifilm company supplying high-definition lenses in the filming of Darth Vader scenes shot in total darkness for the George Lucas’ Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith. A high-definition Fujinon Cine lens was developed for these particular scenes which are difficult to film with regular movie camera equipment. What the Fujinon HD Cine lens delivered were images expressing texture and reproducing subtle black hues. The high performance of these lenses enabled the Fujifilm company Fujinon to win an Emmy Award for Technology and Engineering.
The same outstanding technology is at work in Fuji digital cameras, particularly in the Fuji Finepix models which have set the trend in compact models excelling in low-light shooting conditions. Among the advanced technologies that go into these Fuji compacts is the Super CCD EXR sensor, which is one of the selling points of the Finepix F200 EXR. The sensors of these Fuji digital cameras bring in a versatile feature that helps the photographer adapt to three different shooting environments.
There is a fine capture mode, wherein these Fuji Finepix cameras employ 12-megapixel resolution of the EXR pixel array to capture images in bright colours up to the smallest detail. For high-contrast shooting situations, a photographer can switch to the dual capture mode wherein the Fuji compact reads two images and merges them into a single image of up to 800% in wide dynamic range to produce pictures that reveal subtleties and shadow, and eliminate washout in the brightest areas. In low-lighting situations, the Super CCD EXR is ready to take charge with its pixel-fusion mode, high-sensitivity features and pixel-binning capability wherein two pixels are combined into one super-pixel.
There are two different modes by which to access these Super CCD EXR modes. One is the priority mode which allows the photographer to manually set any of the EXR modes suitable to the shooting condition. The other is the auto mode wherein the Fuji digital cameras automatically set the best EXR mode for the shooting situation to deliver the perfect image.
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