Better Late again, Germany 2010
No, I took this photo made into a museum. It was a board room where I stayed during a multi-day hike. And the other photos in this post are just out of this room or the immediate vicinity of the house. What does this have to do with the Photokina? Well, to put it straight to the point: In my opinion, it is hardly interesting news in the wide world of photography, which is worth it to report.
Well, maybe there were some new cameras with a few nice new features, HDR and 3D have meant, the latest "trends", but I am not convinced everything. The new lenses of some SLR manufacturers are quite nice, but something truly revolutionary is not there. Sure, a few new cameras with new sensors, but those were probably all just a few "Hüpferchen", and truly no quantum leaps.
What counts, which are ultimately still have the photos, and are according to me the if you please not too much Software will be rotated and pimped artificial. Sure, now I hear you say again all "Each photograph is still rigged, but was formerly with the analog film development even so, you can not make even a picture, without being flow into his own view of things!" This is certainly true, but that does still not mean that everything is allowed, and that it should not even try, what you see as truly capture it on a photo.
why I advocate that we now distinguish between "photography" and "Pixel Design". For me photography in the digital age is this: I'm doing with a camera Image without distortions or "enhancement algorithms", passe, perhaps via software on the computer in the RAW converter, the exposure, contrast and colors so that they correspond to my perception, and, finally, the photo paper. THE ONE FOR ME is photography. We are living in concrete and eventually need things to touch, and not just "virtual reality". This virtual reality, particularly the Internet, has its right to exist, but you should things not to overestimate. Much of it is very volatile, quickly created and deleted, not very reliable. inserted in a printed photo or a real conversation over a photographic topic more substance than in almost all Internet fora. Let us ask ourselves yet again: What is really the essence of photography? Can we not give up nearly all the gimmicks on the new cameras? Let's make it really better photos? Does it really have more fun, more and more buttons and functions? In the short term perhaps, but in the long run?
Why am I writing all this here in the Internet, which I've just so damn? It's simple: Here I get to maybe some of you who do not run behind the herd of the art lovers. Well, actually I belong a little bit about these high-tech junkies, but I'm trying to get rid of the addiction, because I realize the me, the photographs did not move forward.
What has brought me photographs lately a step forward: I sold all the equipment, without exception, all except a camera and a lens. Only the Olympus E-P1 and the Panasonic 20mm F1.7 Pancake keep I have. What a relief! No more back and forth with the lenses and the cameras! Absolutely Minmal towed, a camera backpack is obsolete with it! At last I can fully concentrate on taking pictures! And the technical quality of the images is flawless, so I have a clear head for the conscious design of my photos. Maintenance, of course I know so that I can not make ALL the images. Who is confined in the limited equipment, and the photographic opportunities. But in the voluntary conscious restriction is precisely the key is to become an area on its own and there to become better. I'd rather be in a small area well and happy there, as I try in vain to everywhere and in every situation and make a great photo. Photography means learning how to learn, see and sometimes I look around and enjoy just in the area, enjoy the atmosphere and make a photograph. Please understand
not wrong, who like photographing wildlife, which must of course, the right tool have, in the case, a good telephoto lens, etc. I had last year in Namibia. But many photographers as I make also pictures of landscapes, people, everyday situations, and what you need there from the beginning to multiple lenses? But well, I hear first on ... I think it has become clear what I meant, right?
Says Do not: "Yeah, that's just the normal phase, each photographer takes sometime around only with a fixed focal length and considers himself Cartier-Bresson or who knows who's passing, let's do it again. " So simple is not. Give it a try, then you know what I mean.
What we lack, then, I have not seen at Photokina? I would personally like to have a camera with a larger chip and Four-Thirds so that I can with less depth of field and even greater wealth of detail make photos. Here I would then take a bright F1.4 fixed focal length with the focal length range between 35 and 50 mm. Is there already? Yeah, long time, only a few serious errors! I take time directly with the so-called full-frame 24x36mm sensors in the format, because the APS-C format is much better than Four Thirds. The conventional SLR cameras with full frame sensors are simply far too big and too heavy! And the Leica M9 is far too expensive and has no autofocus! Instead of producing any new gimmicks and lenses and 3D and knick-knacks, I believe should be the manufacturer even accept a real challenge: a system with full-frame camera and matching lenses, the whole is as small and handy, also significantly less than a kilogram weight (camera plus lens), which is simple to use and well and, of course not too expensive.
all impossible, quixotic reverie? No, definitely not! Manufacturers have to do just ... There are steps in the right direction: The Fujifilm FinePix X100 . But unfortunately it does have the only APS-C sensor and not a bayonet. But after all the other Data can sit up! Check them out at times, in my opinion the only interesting new feature on the Photokina. I hope this camera is it soon to buy. Well, until then I keep my PEN PL1 and dream that the camera manufacturers to wake up, and not only have a single short-sighted strategy, the mass market with Bluetooth GPS-3D-wireless-HDR Beamer Two display Klickibunti cameras to supersaturation.
Congratulations! You've read this long post and finally made it to the end. Now shut down your computer, take your camera and take photos! But always remember: Keep it simple!
