I think Walt was just emphasizing your point. For the guy who thinks MP3's
sound like real music an 8MP phone-cam probably makes real pictures. It
will be pretty tough to convince him he should schlepp around a 2 pound
wonderbrick. It might work if the marketers can turn it into a status
symbol but camera marketers have a long way to go.
Maybe MP3's do the job because the current generation has had their ear
drums blown by pounding base by the time they're 13. They probably
literally can not hear the difference. Maybe they can still see the
difference with the camera but they're unlikely to pause long enough to
check it out.
As I was writing this I was recalling the words of a software development
manager friend of mine. I told him a couple of years ago that I was getting
out of software and hardware development and going to concentrate solely on
photography. He looked at me incredulously and asked how there could be any
business left for a professional photographer when everybody had a digital
camera.
Chuck Norcutt
R. Jackson wrote:
> A friend if mine who used to be in stereo retail told me years ago
> that the customers were changing. He was selling more receivers with
> sets of tiny satellite speakers than high-end components at the time
> and that was nearly a decade ago at a stereo shop that had only dealt
> in the high end at one time. In the 70's my friends and I talked
> stereo components the way a lot of people used to talk about engines.
> That whole culture seems to be fading away. I still get Stereophile,
> but in almost every issue there's some quote about the vanishing
> landscape of audiophile stereo shops. People can't hear the
> difference anymore, for one thing. Of course, that's all connected to
> the death of the recording industry, too. I was at my old music
> school in Hollywood a few months ago listening to the orientation rap
> they were giving an incoming class and they were telling them that
> there's no studio work in Hollywood anymore. In Hollywood. When I
> went there we *all* worked around town constantly. It was an industry
> town and there was WAY more work than there were musicians to cover
> it. Jesus, I need a Valium or something...sorry...
>
> On Jul 19, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Walt Wayman wrote:
>
>
>>A big part of the problem is that it's a market driven by people
>>who have no concept of quality, who think MP3's sound like real
>>music and that cell phone photos are just fine and dandy.
>>
>>Vinyl, tubes and film still rule! Idiots not allowed and will be
>>shot!
>>
>>Walt
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