Question #11

Question 11. What are the advantages of digital imaging over silver-based imagemaking?

As in silver-based photography, digital imaging allows truth to be made up by whatever people deem to be important and whatever they choose to subvert. While analog silver-based photographers begin with "everything" and often rely on subtractive composition to accomplish these goals, digitalization permits artists to start with a blank slate. This allows imagemakers to convey the sensation and emotional weight of a subject without being bound by its physical conventions, giving picturemakers a new context and venues to express the content of their subject.

R. Hirsch & J. Valentino (2001)

当然，Hirsch & Valentino 少说的是数码的“双便”——便利和便宜。不小心发明了一个不可能念到的词，双便……双便……话说回来，暂且不谈胶卷的独特，数码摄影确实让摄影师省了胶卷和冲洗的步骤（虽然自己冲洗印刷还是非常令人兴奋）和费用。费用！这就是为什么上一次扫描胶卷已是那么遥远的过去。不管摄影了多少年，构图还是很有挑战性，时时不得意。虽说数码让人可以作无数的尝试，下面几张照片还是没有一张是满意的。

Cliff attempt #1. 2011. Canon G5.

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Cliff attempt #4.

我想不管胶卷数码，摄影器材还是无法让你的照片好看或有意义。照片的内涵主要不是限制于你的器材，而是你的技术和思考。或许，还需要一颗永远不满足的心（不满足于摄影，并非不满足于器材）。

Good pictures are usually the provenance of artists, who are the ones worrying about creating better pictures, instead of making better cameras. This is why women make a disproportionately better share of good pictures than men: women aren't worrying about the gear.

Good photographers...have always been able to make great pictures, regardless of the technology at their disposal

Ken Rockwell in Don't Worry: Just Shoot