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holidays without cameras...?


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I enjoy taking photos... don't know why half the time, I just do. BUUUTT... how does it affect our enjoyment of any given moment? Are we looking at how a moment can be remembered to the point of not quite being in it (the moment). With phones having pretty good cameras on them, we're never really away from the possibility of recording anything.

Makes me think of a time in the future when we'll spend the first half of our life recording everything, so we can spend the second half watching it to remind us

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I gave up camera years ago (for my own pleasure, anyway). I'd far rather experience everything properly at the time I experience it than live it thru a lens and miss some of the experience.

Just how ridiculously extreme some people take their photography to was demonstrated to me on a trip to Yosemite Park in California about 15-ish years ago - and by the world's camera-obsessed stereotype, the Japanese. They'd get out of their cars with the camera already fixed to their eye, take their shots, and then get back into their car never having seen the view they'd photographed with their naked eye.

That sounds so extreme that it couldn't be true, yet I saw it happen countless times. :wacko:

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I watched George A. Romero's "Diary of the Dead" a while back. Quite an average film. Its mainly a commentary on youtube and filming at concerts etc, but with, you know, zombies. Theres a line in it “If you didn’t film it, it didn’t happen” and one of the characters films it all, even when the zombies are eating his friends brains etc.

Hammy on the nose social commentary granted but I like the zombie aspect. Taking photos to justify being there at a later stage as opposed to just enjoying it, as Neil said above.

Leave the camera Tone, just take a Les Paul and Led Zeppelin I-IV, Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti and you’ll be fine!

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gigs are just mad these days... I used to record shows, but after a while I realised I was more worried about the recording than the show, so I stopped. I did get some fantastic performances though of The Who.. at least one of which went on to become a fairly acclaimed bootleg (The Who at the Sundown, Edmonton.... that's mine!)

Floyd, Zeppelin, Bowie, Little Feat's first ever show in Europe... now I'm quite glad I did record them... never had any intention of making any money. For the most part, they never went any further than me. The Who one 'escaped' when I lent it to someone

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I gave up camera years ago (for my own pleasure, anyway). I'd far rather experience everything properly at the time I experience it than live it thru a lens and miss some of the experience.

Just how ridiculously extreme some people take their photography to was demonstrated to me on a trip to Yosemite Park in California about 15-ish years ago - and by the world's camera-obsessed stereotype, the Japanese. They'd get out of their cars with the camera already fixed to their eye, take their shots, and then get back into their car never having seen the view they'd photographed with their naked eye.

That sounds so extreme that it couldn't be true, yet I saw it happen countless times. :wacko:

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I'm another one who is into photography, currently own 4 diferent camreas, dslr, 3d, compact and a bridge camera, i love taking photo's and i'd never go on holiday or a festival without a camera

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It has got ridiculous at gig's these days. You can stand at the back and all you will see is tiny LCD screens.

You get half the audience watching the gig through the viewfinder or LCD screen. In times when plenty of the big gigs are professionally recorded and the majority have photographers anyway it seems silly to waste the night getting a poor quality picture/video for yourself.

Besides gig's there is a photo overkill going on these days. I rarely even have my camera on me at social occasions anymore, because I know everyone else will.

Facebook is the best example of this. You go out, and the next day notifications start popping up that you are being tagged in photos left, right and centre. Be it through Facebook or the next big thing, we are at the stage now where people's whole lives are being documented in pictures and videos.

I am not sure if I like the idea of my kids in the future being able to look back on all my drunken shenanigans that have been posted here there and everywhere. If they can hack in to Scarlett Johansson's personal photo stash then no is safe ;)

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I also think taking a few photos now and again will help me to remember moments later on in life. Every now and again I take all my old photos out (yes the ones which have physical form) and have a look through. It's nice to see photos of family, friends etc all having a good time. It'll be something to look at instead of Cash in the Attic when I'm old(er) and decrepit.

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I am not sure if I like the idea of my kids in the future being able to look back on all my drunken shenanigans that have been posted here there and everywhere. If they can hack in to Scarlett Johansson's personal photo stash then no is safe ;)

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