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Here's a photo from one of the Kodak Picture Spots. This is where you can stand and take a supposedly idiot-proof Good Picture, except for the white rock in the center foreground, which I think kind of unbalances the composition. An article in the New York Times about digital cameras and consumer inkjet printers noted that, in the old days of film cameras, you had to pay for every frame you took. Even if you go to Eckerd where they let you not pay for the prints you don't like. It's more bother than it's worth to try to edit three rolls of film while standing there in the store so you just pay for them all. Anyway, taking pictures means using up consumables.
And you always have that little meter running in the back of your mind.
With a digital camera, photos are basically free. You can waste
as many frames as you want hoping to get one good shot. You're more
willing to behave like a professional photographer will (if you spend
more on cameras than you do on film you are not really doing
photography), and blaze away at something in progress in order to get
the one good shot that has the action in it, in focus, framed correctly.
In other words, people with film cameras take pictures of nouns.
People with digital cameras take pictures of verbs.
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