{"id":46032,"date":"2018-08-02T10:26:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T14:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46032"},"modified":"2020-08-08T10:32:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T14:32:51","slug":"they-were-never-uncool-you-hipster-douches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46032","title":{"rendered":"They were never uncool, you hipster douches"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Impetus<\/a>: Instagram losers start community dedicated to photos taken with older digital cameras, claiming they\u2019re cool again; but the question is, were they ever uncool in the first place?<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s articles like this disenchant me from photography. \u00a0Some arrogant photography snobs on the internet dictate on what\u2019s cool and what\u2019s not, and thousands of idiot sheep with no capability of independent thought buy in, and because perception is reality, it perpetuates this cycle where others fall in place, and suddenly things are cool, and things are uncool at the drop of a hat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For lack of a better term in context of the related link, I\u2019ll go ahead and call them digicams: portable, brick-sized-or-less, point-and-shoot cameras.\u00a0 Not DSLRs, the big, clunky cameras with detachable lenses that cost more than car payments, or any other cameras that act like Polaroids without actually being called Polaroids.<\/span><\/p>\n

But anyway, there\u2019s apparently an Instagram community dedicated to photography shot on old digicams, and how they\u2019re declaring that they\u2019re cool again.\u00a0 Leading me to beg the question, when were they ever uncool in the first place?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Frankly, digicams were never uncool; they just became a little outdated in the changing acceptance of what constituted popular photography, and fell behind in technology in being able to capture said popular photography.\u00a0 Everyone became obsessed with bokeh portrait photography, which wasn\u2019t as possible with digicams due to the sizes of the sensors and limitations of built-in lenses.\u00a0 And when more cost-effective options started emerging among DSLRs, digicams kind of did fall to the wayside, and went into the metaphorical and literal drawers that these hipster doofuses declared they did.<\/span><\/p>\n

And personally, I too appreciated the pursuit of bokeh, and went in the direction of getting myself my first DSLR, and then my second, as well as several lenses that I\u2019ve shelled way more money than I probably should have for a fleeting hobby.\u00a0 But the thing is, I never discounted the digicam as uncool, because I still have several of my old ones, and in the spirit of writing this post, struggled and tried to locate the specs and pictures of my very first digital camera,* that I remember getting at a Wal-Mart<\/a> using money that I got from my insurance company for a fender bender that should\u2019ve gone to repairing the bumper to my first car but didn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

*and holy shit, it was the <\/em>Polaroid PDC-640<\/em><\/a> that had a whopping 0.31 megapixels, and had a maximum resolution of 640×480 and an aperture range of 5.6f\u2026 and it was also the literal size of a brick<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve gone through six digicams in my life, and I technically still have two of them in my possession.\u00a0 My first one, I don\u2019t know what happened to it, although I suspect I gave it to my sister a long time ago.\u00a0 The last two I ever had were Canon PowerShots that I eventually deemed expendable and sold on eBay while they still had some value to them.\u00a0 But I still have my Sony PowerShot that has taken over 10,000 photos on it, and the Olympus before that, that had its own share of photos taken on it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Both still work, and I could realistically be like these hipsters and go out and take \u201cartful\u201d \u201cphotography\u201d with them, but the reality for me is that I don\u2019t like to have too much of any things on my person, and I have an iPhone to take point-and-shoot photos if I need to.<\/span><\/p>\n

What I really find obnoxious are the bullshit words said by these hipsters who claim that it\u2019s any sort of challenge shooting with a digicam, because frankly there\u2019s little different shooting with a digicam than shooting on the DSLR in automatic mode; all risks of something artistic are stripped out in order to get a clear photograph of what you see is what you get, which ultimately is often the point of taking a picture in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

The things these hipsters say to justify overly-sharp images where everything is in focus makes me roll my eyes and scrunch my brow at the way hipsters tend to ruin everything when they\u2019re trying to make it seem remotely artistic and more complicated than it really is in order to make themselves sound like experts or revolutionaries.\u00a0 They\u2019re pointing and shooting point-and-shoot cameras, and getting some pretty basic but concise photography in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was never uncool in the first place.\u00a0 It just took a backseat to a more popular trend, but it\u2019s never not been important to have point and shoot photography capable in the world of trying to document things.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Impetus: Instagram losers start community dedicated to photos taken with older digital cameras, claiming they\u2019re cool again; but the question is, were they ever uncool in the first place? It\u2019s articles like this disenchant me from photography. \u00a0Some arrogant photography snobs on the internet dictate on what\u2019s cool and what\u2019s not, and thousands of idiot … Continue reading They were never uncool, you hipster douches<\/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":[133,18,156,25,146],"class_list":["post-46032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-old-man","tag-photos","tag-social-media","tag-technology","tag-triggered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46034,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46032\/revisions\/46034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}