Because people should leave the photographs to the photographers...

[jason_the_great]

Digital cameras have destroyed the art of photography.

Don't ask me why I said that; Just go ahead and nod.

Comments

[asseenbyseers]

I sport digital and film SLRs, and I love them both. I think digital photography is a completely different style, and although I don't think it's any less of art itself, I can see where you're coming from.

[jason_the_great]

All I meant was, digital cameras have allowed any Average Joe to start taking mass-amounts of photographs.

[mithearwen]

As digital photography is diminished in options, detail, complexity, tradition, effect, and quality, many people don't consider it art.

It is handy for your run-of-the-mill pictures, though.

[jason_the_great]

I just think there are too many people taking pictures who have no real photography skills. (Just like me.) With regular cameras, people had to worry about buying film and developing negatives. Now, one can just upload a bunch of pictures to their computer and past them to their blogs. I swear, the sheer amount of pictures on the web has got to take up terrabytes of disk space.

[islandchild411]

I have to agree, and disagree

Agree because I happen to love photography, and you do take more high quality photos with a camera with actual film
However, I have a digital camera and still take the time to take quality and "artistic" pictures, so I don't think I'm destroying the art of photograpy...

whatever