Re: filmscanners: Nikon 8000 ED or Polaroid Sprintscan 120 ??

[Arthur Entlich <artistic@ampsc.com>]

Dicky wrote:


> Actually I have every confidence in the abilities of the man camera
> manufacturers to produce the totally automated and independent self
> operational camera before the next decade is out.
> 
> "What does that mean squire?" I hear you ask...
> well what it means my son is that the photographers day's will be numbered,
> except for their legs and arms that is....their brain will be totally
> redundant as the appropriate software will do the job, faster, more
> reliably, with greater consistency, better quality, more imaginatively and
> finally.....cheaper.

Perhaps once cameras can take instructions from clients and produce work 
which meets those needs (including having the work done "yesterday" and 
being able to negotiate with 4 bosses each demanding a different 
"look"), and further does so in a manner that emulates a certain 
photographer's "vision" or style.

Forget those program modes labeled "Sports", "Macro" or "Portrait" . 
the next cameras are just going to have "Ansel Adams", "Helmut Newton", 
"Richard Avadon", "Tony Sleep" ;-) and other modes.   However, by then, 
Tony will be living off the licensing royalties from the "Tony Sleep" 
mode on those cameras, anyway, so who cares..., right?

Art