I bought my first digital camera for this Australia trip that I am on. It has approximately seven thousand buttons, dials, and small wheels that spin. There are more settings and options for taking pictures than I can ever learn to use. I am almost positive that this new camera of mine is more technologically advanced than the space shuttle that took the first astronauts to the moon. Heck, I think there’s even a setting for taking pictures of the moon.
I am old enough to remember cameras that had two buttons. One turned it on and off, and one took pictures. There was even a camera that would spit out the picture as soon as you took it. Now, there are filters, shutter speeds, light settings, and even options for whether a person you are taking a picture of is light skinned or dark skinned (a little racist, if you ask me.)
But here I am, in Australia, with a camera so shiny and futuristic that I almost expect it to start talking to me, like the car from Knight Rider. It would say, “Avi, are you sure you want to take a picture of that? It’s a flower. No one needs more pictures of flowers. And you’re a dude. This is just embarrassing.” Or, “congratulations, another blurry picture that may or may not be some kind of bird or rock.”
Needless to say, I would not get along with my camera. But that’s where I think the future of photography is heading.
Talking cameras. You heard it here first.
-Steinberg
p.s. I deny any flower photography. Do not listen to my camera. He is a liar.
Did you go to B&H?
If a picture is worth a thousand words, every time you take a terrible picture, that’s the equivalent of your camera using a thousand bad words. So make sure to play with those settings a lot and see what kind of swear words your camera knows. I bet it’s multilingual.
“he” is a liar? a little sexist, if you ask me (or masculonormative, anyway).
Hey Avi,
I just discovered that you pretty much went to the completely other side of the world. You know how we used to think that if you dug through the earth you’d end up in china. Well, we were wrong. Apparently, the other side of the world is pretty close to Australia. Check it out here: Antipodes
Momo, how do you find this stuff?
and Avi…you know what you do for a living, right? and you’re worried about taking pictures of flowers?
I saw it on a blog, if you check out the antipode for china, you’ll find that it’s Argentina. If Argentinians dig through the earth they will end up in china.