> photography is artistic & creative in nature. This is a pretty broad generalization. There is plenty of photography that is nothing but technical. Also, the

> photography is artistic & creative in nature. This is a pretty broad generalization. There is plenty of photography that is nothing but technical. Also, the technical side of photography is what drives the innovation to enable the creative side. Do hobbyist landscape and portrait photographers need to be pouring over test data like this or even benefit in appreciable ways from these advances? Not likely. But the R&D that is done in optics begins with some of the most technical fields and trickles down.