I gave a workshop last night to a group of junior-high boys. What an
adventure!
I pull out an OM-2s with winder2 and 200/2.8 lens and they go "WOW!, what
is it? Is that a camera?" Oh, brother, it's going to be a long night...
I let them look through the cameras with different lenses so they could
learn the differences between wide, normal, telephoto, zoom and of couse,
the shift lenses. They couldn't understand why I would want to use all
this big cumbesome equipment when their Moms have these little pocketable
cameras. I pulled out the 11x17 prints and showed them some shots that
those little p&s cameras wouldn't beable to get.
Then I was able to show them how I achieved some special affects shots by
just using the shutter speed and lens opening. "cool..." Funny thing, the
pictures they liked most weren't the sports, wildlife or adventure pictures
-- they were the pictures that were the result of improper processing.
There is nothing like the scene of a hillside on fire that is actually a
negative of a winter snowscape with the black layer reversed by a bad E6
process.
It is apparent that there has been a substantial "dumbing" of the masses
when it comes to cameras. It used to be that people at a vague
understanding of what a lens is. Now, they think that the film dropped
inside the box mysteriously captures the picture regardless of the smudge
on the lens or thier fingers covering the flash. I guess it's always been
this way.
I shouldn't complain... It makes us dinasors more valuable.
Ken N.
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