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"I know that a good photographer can take a good photograph with anything, and a bad photographer myself won't be improved by better equipment." With high late
by jerf 7y ago
"I know that a good photographer can take a good photograph with anything, and a bad photographer myself won't be improved by better equipment."
With high latency, a photographer may take a technically high-quality photograph of the moment half-a-second too late. Skill can't overcome latency.
I've become half-decent at accounting for the latency... pushing the button to take a picture, wait quarter second, then call out to the kid in question to look at you. But it's definitely one of those places where the old analog ways have an advantage over all of our digital ways and their interminable deciseconds extending into seconds of endlessly getting ready... gotta load the home screen, gotta load the camera, ok, now, wait a second, gotta initialize the camera hardware... whoops, gotta swap out some of your apps... ok... NO WAIT NOT OK oh crap they pushed the button... uh... load the button push handler... uhhh.... ok, CLICK.
Sigh.