We are in the digital age, where everything is measured in pixels. And there lies the rub.
If you took the best digicam on the market, took a shot and then blew it up to the size of your living-room wall, all you would see is those dreaded pixels!
Yet if you took the same image on an Olympus OM10 (five quid from Oxfam!!!) you would get a perfect picture, full resolution, mural-sized.
This is because the old manual cameras took genuine photographic images, down to the micro-organism. The modern robots are digital images; they are not true. They are in effect toons!
The same failure of digital technology is also coming home to roost as we are now constantly grappling with HD home equipment.
As I said, funny thing technology! The more imperfect, second-rate something becomes, the more obsessed we become with blowing our entire wealth in it.
Message edited by author 2011-01-07 21:12:23. |
