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- From: mlindholm@cc.helsinki.fi
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Camera Feature Wars - Photo Getting Like Video
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.162305.1@cc.helsinki.fi>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 14:23:05 GMT
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- Sender: news@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- (This message is not to anyone personally, just thoughts which have risen
- lately, so don't flame. Otherwise, comments are welcomed.)
-
- Our whole technological culture is based on the idea that everything must be
- made to work ever more perfect. If a machine can be built, that is enough a
- justification to build it. No concern is given to whether it is needed at all
- or even whether it is downright bad for people (or nature). Engineering is our
- new religion: we have to make progress. No one knows why, but we just have to.
- And we want all those marvellous new technological advancements. No one knows
- why, but we just want.
-
- And the more technological and the more artificial the world we live in is, the
- more stressing our life becomes, because we are not living in a world for which
- we were meant to. Our abilities are not needed. Machines do everything
- better. And there comes the inevitable frustration. Not perhaps individually,
- but on a collective level.
-
- If we think of a hobby photographer, which I think most of the readers of this
- list are, I see no reason why every shot should be perfect. Isn't he joy in
- photography in gambling? That you can never be quite sure what the outcome is.
- To appreciate the successful photos, one must also experience failures.
-
-
- Mikko Lindholm
- mlindholm@cc.helsinki.fi
-