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Technology: Seeing the big picture: Cheap and simple digital cameras are turning the world of photography on its head. Will this revolution be the profession's biggest challenge, asks Tom Ang
The photographic coverage of the July 7 London bombings was an unexpected aftershock for media professionals. The realisation that almost every image seen on television news and front pages was captured by amateurs sent shivers down the collective media spine. It was confirmation, if any were needed, that digital photography had come of age. Thanks to sales exceeding 200m a year worldwide, including cameraphones, access to digital photography is all but universal among the urban population. What is astonishing is to realise that the important changes - from nearly zero adoption to near-saturation of the market - took place in only five years. While the first patents for a filmless camera were filed in 1972, we had to wait until 1986 for the first digital camera system, the Canon RC-701. It was aimed at press photographers but its $27,000 price tag was hardly an encouragement. The first consumer digital camera under $1,000 arrived in 1994: the Apple QuickTake had a fixed lens and took 640x480 pixels (similar to the quality of an average TV screen). It was apparent that, while it was fun to get a picture without the hassle of processing film, the price was too high for image quality that was, to put it kindly, dilapidated. Any attempt to gaze into the crystal ball will be obscured by the sheer number of images being taken. In 1998, 67bn images were made worldwide. We know that because 3bn rolls of film were sold. It is impossible to be accurate, but with a world population of digital cameras exceeding a third of a billion on top of millions of film- using cameras still in use, it is likely that more pictures are taken every year than in the previous 160 years of photography put together. In addition to the other pollutions we have unleashed on ourselves, we may well have to thank digital photography for giving us image pollution.
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Seeing the big picture
Cheap and simple digital cameras are turning the world of photography on its head. Examines whether the digital revolution represents the profession's biggest challenge. (Original abstract - amended)
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Don's delight Tom Ang on The Art of War - the book that changed his life
One summer I read the Bible from end to end, missing only those tedious lists of begatings. Another summer I read all of Shakespeare. For me, these rank alongside Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, The Adventures of Tin Tin and A D Imm's great tome on Entomology: like the chocolates I devoured at the time, they were memorably hedonistic orgies . . . and lay heavy on the brain. But none, I must admit, has really changed the way I lived as much as a very short book which I've never finished reading.
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