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For a culture that claims to be rooted in logic and reason, the momentum to abandon a 100+ year old standard because "Apple did it" is rather illogical.
by aestetix 9y ago
For a culture that claims to be rooted in logic and reason, the momentum to abandon a 100+ year old standard because "Apple did it" is rather illogical.
- tempodox 9y agoYou're under a false impression. The culture you're talking about is rooted in maximizing profits and cornering a market. Logic and reason are only ever established in that framework.
- Jedd 9y agoSpeaking of 100+ year old standards <sic> ... ask a photography friend who advocates Full Frame DSLRs why they think Full Frame is the holy grail of photography. Hilarity shall ensue.
- amdavidson 9y agoDo you know people that think that 35mm is some sort of magical dimension or are you arguing that sensor size doesn't play into photography?
- Jedd 9y agoI'm reasonably familiar with the physics and artistic implications of sensor size, and I know an unsettling number of people (typically Canon or Nikon fans) that don't know why they think 35mm is the perfect size for a sensor, but they know that it is, and they know they need one. There's two things I love about 35mm - first, along with most numbers used in photography, it shows Americans can cope with (and indeed embrace) metric, and second the origin is a 'let's get 16 frames to the foot of motion picture film' arbitrary decision made in the late 1800's. That it defines so many amateur photographers' desires 130 years later is perversely delightful.