Check out "As We May Think", a legendary essay by Dr. Vannevar Bush in 1945. Bush was the Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and "coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare".
The topic of his essay was: what should scientists do for the benefit of society now that the war is over?
That last paragraph is a downer... Unlike film cameras, DSLR cameras you already own are going to be harder to maintain, if at all, and then what happens to all the thousands we spent on dslr glass...
If there was a near-magical device that someone created that let you take pictures with your eyes at any iso, angle, etc that you desired wouldn't you be happy? The money we've put into glass is money towards an end. The end being taking awesome photos. If tomorrow I could do with my phone what I can do with my backpack + three or four lenses + 5D MII I wouldn't even blink. I'd just say "SWEET!"
I love my lenses because of the photos they give me. And I totally disagree with this article. For every DSLR person that goes mirrorless there are going to be 10 iPhone photographers that go "pro".
> what happens to all the thousands we spent on dslr glass...
Well, if you don't wait too long, you can get a lot of it back. I sold my D700 + glass, and made $3300, which I used to buy a lovely OM-D system (12, 20, 25, 45, 75). I use my camera much more now.
This has been happening with every cycle. Media life-span got shorter and shorter. Just look at things like 16mm, 8mm, VHS and soon on the video front, 45, then 33 rpm vynil, compact cassette, DAT tape and CDs on the audio front.
With film it isn't any different and it should be no surprise that digital devices suffer from this too. There has to be some lower limit for medium+device longevity.
So many countries have "Detain first, something-something later" policies that it's easier to make a list of the ones who don't. Like Japan, for example, allows suspects to be arrested and detained for 20+ days without being charge
FYI, the call to action is obscured (actually it's more accurate to say there is no call to action, i.e. a button to download the app) in iPad portrait mode. You can see this when you resize the desktop browser to that width.
Why do you have to ask "why"? You can just sign up for yourself and see how the writing experience differs. Every popular service has benefits that are better understood through trying
IIRC, that submitter ridiculed stock photos harshly in the original title and so that's why people reacted with negativeness and also, the points about Apples logo not being eligible for unapproved advertising is actuallynNi e to know
The topic of his essay was: what should scientists do for the benefit of society now that the war is over?
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma...