{"id":46482,"date":"2019-01-29T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T20:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46482"},"modified":"2020-08-10T16:03:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T20:03:25","slug":"sad-but-understandable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46482","title":{"rendered":"Sad, but understandable"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TL;DR<\/a>: Canon CEO admits that they can\u2019t really compete with the burgeoning mobile photography demographic<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a defiant change-resisting part of me that wants to erupt in a knee-jerk reaction and proclaim that cell phone cameras may saturate the world of photography now, but they\u2019ll never compete with the quality of a traditional camera!\u00a0 Honestly though, I don\u2019t really feel like I can however.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only have cell phone cameras really closed the gap in capabilities of even the most bulky and expensive DSLR cameras out there, I also fall into the demographic that\u2019s kind of tired of lugging around a brick with a heavy lens that\u2019s cost me nearly $2 grand and is fragile as shit.\u00a0 At the time I\u2019m writing this, I have an embarrassingly large backlog of photos that I haven\u2019t processed because they\u2019re RAWs, and I typically do them one at a time, but the thing is I don\u2019t have as much free time anymore as I used to, and I\u2019ve got over half of my last European vacation photos to go through, as well as starting<\/em> the photographs I took at Dragon*Con many months ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t regret investing in a decent camera and investing even more in a bunch of expensive lenses; among the thousands of photos I\u2019ve taken over the last decade, I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve got at least a handful of good ones that made it all worth it.\u00a0 But the fact of the matter is that looking towards the future, I know that I\u2019ve gotten more and more tired of lugging around \u201cgear,\u201d all for the sake of accomplishing what the modern cell phone is getting closer and closer to accomplishing.\u00a0 Even during my last day in Germany a few months ago, one of the most liberating things was the fact that I had decided to not bring my camera with me, and to just go out and enjoy Munich without it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although I\u2019m often behind the times when it comes to cell phones, mostly because I still don\u2019t really consider my mobile device as my primary camera, and I don\u2019t feel like keeping up with the Joneses and constantly updating and upgrading to the newest and latest and greatest phones<\/em> because I want a better camera<\/em>, I really do understand the general appeal of mobile device photography.\u00a0 It\u2019s literally going from your pocket to your hand, and you\u2019re getting amazingly decent results from a few taps onto the screen.\u00a0 There\u2019s no wheels to turn, F-stops to adjust, no white to balance.\u00a0 In the matter of seconds, a competent photo could be taken, as opposed to the vastly longer time it takes to configure a camera for the same result.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Even the art of bokeh AKA tastefully blurred background or foreground, which has taken me tons of practice to barely be better than a novice at, has gotten to a point where a mobile device can basically identify what\u2019s the background, and tastefully blur it, with merely a sliding bar.\u00a0 Frankly, considering bokeh\u2019d photography is what\u2019s widely perceived as the most popular when it comes to portraits and capturing human beings, there\u2019s little reason why people wouldn\u2019t just do the easy mode on a phone instead of shooting and inevitably re-shooting when you don\u2019t get it right the first time around, like me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, it\u2019s more of a sad business story for Canon, as well as Nikon and other manufacturers, as far as sales go.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had a lot of enjoyment out of photography as a casual hobby, but I\u2019m not going to lie, there are times when I simply don\u2019t want to have to lug around my camera sometimes, but I would still like to have the capability of taking good photos when I want to.\u00a0 Pivoting to try and appeal solely to different demographics will only buy them a little bit of time; as the cell phone continues to evolve and grow, it\u2019ll only be a matter of time before mobile cameras basically become the norm.<\/span><\/p>\n

For what it\u2019s worth, I still don\u2019t plan on giving up on more traditional photography; I\u2019m not saying I\u2019m going to go all the way back in time and do film photography, but I most definitely want to be able to still use my DSLR.\u00a0 When the day is over, as much as I may have bitched about it previously, the versatility of RAW is still the one thing that actual cameras will have over mobile photography, mostly shooting JPEGs by default.\u00a0 Who knows, maybe as mobile photography continues to grow, it\u2019ll force companies like Canon to actually drop some prices to some of their gear; lord knows, I don\u2019t really want to drop another grand on another lens that I\u2019m only going to use part of the time, or have to carry in tandem with other lenses, depending on the scenario.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s still sad to hear that some of the most major players in the entire photography industry have basically shown their hand and basically admit that they\u2019ve got white flags ready for whenever the time comes when they\u2019re nearing death.\u00a0 People like me most certainly can\u2019t be helping, but it can\u2019t be helped; sometimes people like me just want convenience and to not have to carry, things, sometimes, and with the growing trend of minimalism and scaling back, it can only mean bad things for the \u201ctraditional\u201d camera industry.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TL;DR: Canon CEO admits that they can\u2019t really compete with the burgeoning mobile photography demographic There\u2019s a defiant change-resisting part of me that wants to erupt in a knee-jerk reaction and proclaim that cell phone cameras may saturate the world of photography now, but they\u2019ll never compete with the quality of a traditional camera!\u00a0 Honestly … Continue reading Sad, but understandable<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[144,52,18,25,146],"class_list":["post-46482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cameras","tag-owned","tag-photos","tag-technology","tag-triggered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46484,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46482\/revisions\/46484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}