On 27/09/2012 10:27, Steve Cottrell wrote:
Something becoming more and more obvious to me is the effective 'dumbing
down' of photography.
In days gone by, there were basically three tiers of equipment. SLR
cameras, bigger SLR cameras, and everything else.
I'm not sure I would lump everything from disposables to full-plate
large formet into one but I get your point.
Take a low-spec model, rip all the frills out of it, basic manual
functions, simple menu system, manual focussing aids, threaded shutter
release, K mount would be ideal (lots of manual focus lenses about) and
call it the 'Pentax Student'. Price it below entry level and gear up to
make as many as you can. Schools the world over would buy them by the ton.
Not when the market is awash with PDML castoffs. All of the stuff at
work is secondhand - they lost their inhibitions about doing that when
film cameras became effectively unavailable in the last ten years or so
and carried on the practice with digital.
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