I heard it again yesterday for the billionth time: “Digital Photography”. Isn’t it time we drop the word ‘digital’?
Seems we’ve managed to drop the “electric” from “electric guitar” in common parlance.
We found it easy to drop the word “acrylic” from “acrylic painting” when that came on the scene with oils.
We quickly ditched the “digital” from “digital music” when it took the lead over records and tapes and CDs.
I suppose by-and-large our industry has dropped the word, but given that digital and analog photography are fundamentally the same thing, isn’t it time we implore the rest of the world to assimilate the term “digital photography” back into “photography” as a whole?
I also suggest we drop the High Def from HDTV and just call it television
The other would then become LDTV – Low Def TV
Why the marketers haven’t figured this yet is beyond me.
I still get people asking, “So do you shoot digital?” It’s almost embarrassing and I try not to make them feel bad, but hello!! I usually tell them Kodak stopped making film (or something like that).
Peronally I think the 2 are ever so slightly different, both have +ve and -ve sides:
Film cameras are cheaper for the same quality now most people have gone digital however with film you still have to pay for the film + processing or chemicals and kit to process and print yourself.
Digital is quicker to get to a client and easier for them to use in the modern world where as film has a more tradtional feel to it which is often shown in the raw image e.g. film grain and sensor noise, I don’t know what it is but I can tell the difference in a print.
Smelling of chemicals from the darkroom is great where as stinking of BO from sitting at a computer ain’t to good at all.
You said about dropping electric from guitar, again I don’t think this has really happened, otherwise you wouldn’t get acoustic sessions would you, well at least they wouldn’t be advertised as acoustic.
Each to their own, I love shooting film, I love shooting digital but I will be keeping the two seperate for the forseeable future.
would be nice if the camera manufacturers started off by ditching the “D” in their naming conventions. While their at it ditch the numbers too (since they don’t follow a logical sequence in these anyway) and start naming cameras creatively.
WORD!!