Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Photography: The digital analog divide.

With the advent of photography capturing time was made possible. Are you wondering 'is it not light that the camera captures?' Sure. It is light that a camera captures, but the bigger catch is that moment in time. Thanks to the digital revolution, the tools to capture time have proliferated. The mobilephone has one now. Cameraphones have outnumbered the traditional cameras. The cameraphone reigns supreme when it comes to capturing those moments - wherever, whenever. The maximum number of pictures clicked across the world today are clicked from cameraphones. But for my friend Ritam Banerjee , a Pro Photographer and may others like him, the real thing is still 'turning negatives to positives'. While the great debate goes on, here's to the efforts towards bridging the divide - mobylog!

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