Good post. Here in Ottawa (Canada's capital for international
posters who are unsure about Canadians) I think no wedding
photographers use a digital camera. When my wife and I got married
4 years ago, we asked around for fun if any used dig cams. None
did. We still keep in touch with our photographer (used Hasselbad
BTW). When I saw this post, I immediately called him. He is aware
of no one who shoots weddings or any other professional function
with a digital camera here in Ottawa. He has one though, like I,
but it is "just for fun." The immediacy of the digital camera is
cool, but the quality is not a substitute for film as of yet.
Everyone has been saying for the past 3 or 4 years that dig cams
will take over. They haven't yet; they are accessories, not a
photographing system. DVDs were supposed to takeover from VHS.
Just before Christmas CNN had a tech show on. VHS still outsells in
terms of rentals, VCR vs DVD purchases, you name it. The DVD
industry is forecasting that it will takeover during 2002; but such
forecasts have been made for the past 4 years.
Digital will eventually take over, but I bet it will take at least
as long as DVDs have taken. Just my 0.02 Canadian cents.
-Bill
And then there were vinyl LPs and CDs. That took how long? :-) My
local(small city near Los Angeles) movie rental place has more VHS
titles because they contain all the older movies. However if you
look at the line of people standing in line with the newer movies
that most people rent more than half are holding DVDs. The rest of
the US lags a little behind the two coasts in these trends. I don't
know about Canada. And DVD is much newer than digital photography,
but it is for all intents and purposes a completed technology and we
are just talking about marketing. Digital photography is still being
created. So that is a handicapped race you are proposing.
One would not expect a highly competitive cottage industry like
photography to be cutting edge. Basically it is an industry based on
tradition. On that same CNN you mention, the correspondent last
night was viewing digital pics from the photographer's N*kon on his
Mac G4 TiBook in Afghanistan before switching to the downloaded
digital images. It is later than you think.
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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