Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Try carrying 300 rolls of film and getting them through the x-ray machines. A few cables and batteries are nothing! Tina On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com>wrote: > Jim, > > Like you I'm a techie. I believe in it. But I have been thinking a lot > about how > technology impacts photography recently. When I fly I fly budget, and that > means > limited baggage. Buying hold baggage or whatever is of course possible, > but it > rapidly mounts up. > > Last time I travelled I could only travel with one bag for four days so > had to > leave laptop behind and carried only camera, charger and SD cards. I am > however > only shooting for my and very occasionally your, amusement. > > I wonder how our photo-journalistic heroes would have coped and whether > they > would have produced the images we revere them for, had they had to cart > all that > stuff. > > I completely agree with your observations about the Camino, from trying to > take > my kids to interesting sites! They are more worried about Facebook > connectivity > than what is around them. > > But somewhere buried in it technology advances. > > Peter > > On 06/03/2014 21:48, Tina Manley wrote: > > I'm packing all of that right now for 3 weeks in Vietnam. I'm more > worried > > about leaving some crucial cable than I am about what clothes I'm > packing!! > > > > Tina > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Jim Laurel (gmail) <jplaurel at gmail.com > >wrote: > > > .... > > >> I'm a technologist, but I am also concerned about the impact of > technology > >> on society and culture. I walked the Camino de Santiago from St. Jean > Pied > >> de Port to Compostella last Fall - 800 kilometers. So many pilgrims with > >> their faces buried in their iPhones, frantic to find some WiFi. Sitting > >> together at tables, but isolated, each one in his/her own little virtual > >> world. Every night in the Abergues, people would be scrambling for the > few > >> outlets to charge phones, cameras, iPads, etc. I can't help but think > that > >> 30 years ago, they would have been enjoying the moment a bit more. > >> > >> --Jim > >> > > -- > > =========================================================== > Dr Peter Dzwig > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com