Remember when you had to guess exposure with a handheld meter?

Honestly, I used to spend 10 minutes walking around a scene taking readings off a Sekonic before even touching my Mamiya. Now I just eyeball it with the digital back's histogram and adjust in post; way faster but I kinda miss the ritual.

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lindag336d ago

The whole thing is like how people used to handwrite letters and now we just shoot off texts. We traded the slow, careful process for speed and ease, but something got lost along the way. Like, I still miss the feeling of pushing film into a developing tank, the quiet of the darkroom. Now I just stare at a screen and slide bars around. Makes you wonder what other rituals we threw out without thinking.

susanb346d ago

Ngl @lindag33, you're making deep thoughts sound like a eulogy for my old flip phone. I feel you though, I still remember the thrill of waiting for a CD to load vs. just streaming everything now. Honestly, part of me wonders if we traded the struggle for convenience and just got boring. Maybe next time I'll handwrite my online shopping list and see if that brings back the magic. Or not, because autocorrect exists and I'm lazy.

elliot_gibson275d ago

Saw something the other day about how we used to memorize phone numbers and now we don't know our own family's digits. Kinda makes you wonder what else we forgot along the way.