Duality

Last night, NPR had this mildly interesting show on photography and the state of the industry. There were some snarky (as snarky as NPR gets) insider types answering questions from the host and from callers and emailers (when is NPR going to jump on the text bandwagon?).

One of the big debates, so big in fact that it was sort of just washed over in a "we'll never solve this" fashion, was the use of digital cameras versus the old school film-types. You can probably see where this is headed...

Would a camera that shot on both mediums work? Are the various appertures and settings the same? I'm guessing they could be streamlined enough to make it work.

Now, here's the biggers issue: regular folks will just print their pictures and not care about the reduced quality and industry folks have a clear preference.

So who would buy this? As with all our ideas, potentially no one. But it's novel enough that someone might jump on it. And if you set it up so that one could take either format, or both at the same time, it would have more legs.

Even for someone like me, who isn't a photography guy by any means, prefers the way film pictures look once printed, but can't argue with the simplistic nature of digital. It might be nice to have one camera that is both frosted AND good for me.