{"id":11917,"date":"2014-04-20T20:22:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T03:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=11917"},"modified":"2014-04-20T20:22:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T03:22:18","slug":"cellphoneography-what-happened-to-all-the-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=11917","title":{"rendered":"Cellphoneography what happened to all the cameras?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For many photographers and those interested in photography there may be a\u00a0 bit of a bubble effect where,\u00a0 we are interested in cameras so we think everyone else is too, but we are in our own little world because most\u00a0people\u00a0have given up on single purpose photographic devices (i.e. cameras).\u00a0 Sure there are more people taking pictures now than there ever has been before but they are not doing it with ‘cameras’.\u00a0 It wasn’t that long ago that if you wanted a picture of something you needed a camera, so that’s what people had hanging around their necks and in their hands at destinations like this Tulip festival.\u00a0 Now with the proliferation of ‘smart phones’\u00a0having a camera is no longer a necessity.\u00a0 Cell phones and tablets serve the function of proving you attended somewhere or something.\u00a0 The change hasn’t occurred to the same degree for those of us that fancy ourselves as ‘photographers’ with our cameras and lenses but for everyone else they just don’t need to go out and buy a separate camera if what they already have serves that function well enough.\u00a0 You can see the camera industry reacting to this, although slightly behind, by dropping the basic point and shoot camera and concentrating on niche higher end cameras for the bubble people and maybe to convince a few cellphoneographers\u00a0to enter the bubble.\u00a0\u00a0 Where will this all lead us?\u00a0 Leaving the social media and sharing aside for a moment I think that there is likely to continue to be different devices for different photographic purposes\u00a0of which\u00a0cell phones are only one.\u00a0 Now the survival of film that is another story.<\/p>\n\n\t\t