Do you like to learn something new every day?

Yes. I like to learn something new everyday. Today, I offered a gift to a stranger who turned it down and told me why. I would have felt rejected. But, instead I decided he was respecting me by explaining why the gift was not what he was interested in. The needy don't just take whatever is given. It is only helpful to them if it is relevant.
 
Robb.hisself said:
Yes. I like to learn something new everyday. Today, I offered a gift to a stranger who turned it down and told me why. I would have felt rejected. But, instead I decided he was respecting me by explaining why the gift was not what he was interested in. The needy don't just take whatever is given. It is only helpful to them if it is relevant.
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Reminds me of all the ladies insisting on donating quilts to disaster victims who no longer have the place or ability to use them. Lovely thought, but not helpful.
 
One of the reasons I've kepy my passion for photograohy over the years (apart from it being my job) is that it's constantly changing and evolving. There's always something new to learn or get better at. Over the years it's changed a lot with people wailing and gnashing their teeth over it...

Film photography - it'll be the death of painting (It wasn't)
Digital photography - it'll be the death of film (It wasn't)
Video on digital cameras - it'll be the death of stills photography (It wasn't)
Drone photography - it'll be the death of photography in general (It wasn't)
Next is AI - it'll be the death of actual real photography (It won't)
 
i see a lot of things at work. things on counters, in the trash...things that make me curious as to what they mean, what they are and what they do with them. whenever i see something i write it down and google it when i get home. last week i learned what a thoracic catheter is. hope i never need one.
 
-Oy- said:
Over the years it's changed a lot with people wailing and gnashing their teeth over it...
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As a dedicated snapper since 1971 it has indeed changed a lot. The main complaint I've heard isn't so much the death of anything but, rather the impact of the changes. Truly, the most innovative DSLR was the NX by Samsung which brought the smartphone interface to the DSL. It meant that ease of use from the snap to editing to posting was as similar as it could get to the convenience of a smartphone.

But, by that time even Samsung had realized that the DSLR was dead as a consumer tool and dump the camera; switching instead to improving photography with a smartphone. The smartphone did not kill the photo industry. But, rather it changed the camera industry so radically that no consumer camera company could survive.

Today, the DSLR is still around and still in production but is now primarily aimed at professional users, alone. (Remember, I said 'primarily'.) So innovation does not really kill anything, but it does have a real impact. The consumer camera industry of today is completely unrecognizable compared to what it was in 1971.
 
Robb.hisself said:
As a dedicated snapper since 1971 it has indeed changed a lot. The main complaint I've heard isn't so much the death of anything but, rather the impact of the changes. Truly, the most innovative DSLR was the NX by Samsung which brought the smartphone interface to the DSL. It meant that ease of use from the snap to editing to posting was as similar as it could get to the convenience of a smartphone.

But, by that time even Samsung had realized that the DSLR was dead as a consumer tool and dump the camera; switching instead to improving photography with a smartphone. The smartphone did not kill the photo industry. But, rather it changed the camera industry so radically that no consumer camera company could survive.

Today, the DSLR is still around and still in production but is now primarily aimed at professional users, alone. (Remember, I said 'primarily'.) So innovation does not really kill anything, but it does have a real impact. The consumer camera industry of today is completely unrecognizable compared to what it was in 1971.
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The DSLR is now pretty much dead with new pro cameras being mirrorless like the Nikon flagship model Z9 that I Use.
 
Like learning something new but everyday don't think that's possible. Today tried something new for a crumb topping. Dark brown sugar, flour & cubed cold butter skipped the dash of salt because used salted butter <---- those ingredients all standard. The new was using the food processor to blend the flour & sugar to a smooth lump free consistency.
 
-Oy- said:
The DSLR is now pretty much dead with new pro cameras being mirrorless like the Nikon flagship model Z9 that I Use.
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Nikon's line is now aimed at pro users. The only DSLR camera manufacturer still producing this camera is Pentax. But there's little new anymore. It is just producing the same model with each passing year.

MIrrorless interchangeable lens cameras are all the rage today. Too bad its innovator (Olympus) did not have the deep pockets nor effective marketing to last long enough for it to become a mainstay of this camera type. With reduced competition it looks like the rapid, year over year, innovation of the first decade of this century won't be the pulse of the industry. Thus your camera may be very long lived, with no REAL new models for some time.
 
-Oy- said:
One of the reasons I've kepy my passion for photograohy over the years (apart from it being my job) is that it's constantly changing and evolving. There's always something new to learn or get better at. Over the years it's changed a lot with people wailing and gnashing their teeth over it...

Film photography - it'll be the death of painting (It wasn't)
Digital photography - it'll be the death of film (It wasn't)
Video on digital cameras - it'll be the death of stills photography (It wasn't)
Drone photography - it'll be the death of photography in general (It wasn't)
Next is AI - it'll be the death of actual real photography (It won't)
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Interesting points you make. Hmm... your first point there. Who is shooting stills using film these days? Do you?

I can understand it still might have some narrow niche for something. I just don't know what.
 
JBR said:
Interesting points you make. Hmm... your first point there. Who is shooting stills using film these days? Do you?

I can understand it still might have some narrow niche for something. I just don't know what.
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Yes me - and a lot of other people. Lots of new people as well as those of us who never really stopped.
 
For a lot of years I was involved with magazine & newspaper journalism as a freelance contributor. At first I did both writing & photography. I used mainly Kodak and Fuji film stocks (35mm). I eventually felt doing both roles had become such a big headache that I stopped submitting slides or B&W negs. I did the last work of that sort in maybe 1988, when digital was looming ever larger. Just a few years after that point, there were far fewer shops that were still doing E6 transparency processing in British Columbia.

So the editors would assign photographers to shoots as accompaniment for my articles. Because I was now entirely a writer, I retired my camera bodies, lenses, motordrive. I'd previously dispensed with my old B&W darkroom equipment. I bought a canon snapshooting camera, and that's all I've used since. If a person living where I do could get film, I think it would still be both inconvenient & expensive to have it processed.

Tell me, -OY-, how does it work for you?
 
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I like it when I learn something new..if not every day, then often enough that I feel my knowledge is expanding. I really love it when I learn things from the young-uns.
 

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