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?
My lab is GREAT!
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I find it amusing the owner 30 years in business still calls a print a DIGITAL PRINT
Amen Brotha!!
I appreciate there are many different formats/disciplines/personal opinions in regards to photography and how each step of it’s evolution should be labeled BUT isn’t photography (of any description) ‘writing with light’? Regardless of what tools you employ to make your vision real, light is the common factor in the creation of that vision… I have no beef what soever if people want to identify their particular tools & methods when describing their form of photography – that’s up to them – but I also have no issue with “photography” being the common description applied to all forms of ‘writing with light’ either.
There are plenty of classifications for photography, such as “Large Format Photography” or “Stereoscopic Photography”. I don’t feel upset if you refer to it as digital photography because it’s just another method of capturing an image. Eventually it will get the digital name dropped, and on that day people will stop calling TV’s “flat screen TV’s” as well!
I am sorry but I do not agree with you saying ” digital and analog photography are fundamentally the same thing”. There is a huge difference between these two, they represent different kinds of taking a photograph. Someone who’s really experience in using both should know that and would never say such a thing. So I won’t stop using the terms digital and analog because they are not the same.