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If they are good enough to employ they are good enough for AT LEAST minimum wage and fair treatment under the local employment standards. Anything else is outright exploitation regardless of how lofty the stature of the exploiter or glowing their after the fact recommendation of their victim.
On the subject of artists as a**holes: where did we ever get the naive notion that art and artists are any different from other products produced by human beings or the people who produce them???? That's equivalent to saying that if someone is a drunken, wife abusing pedofile druggie we are still "obliged" to recognize and buy support their work. Arts is product for consumption just as music or hamburgers and if we don't agree with the behaviour of the producer, as consumers we still have the right to protest with our wallets and our feet. They can be happily famous after they are dead and doing penance in whatever afterlife they ended up in.
A Small Controversy
A small controversy concerning a great photographer who apparently (if the stories are to be believed) quite often rubs people the wrong way. I liked the comment by "John"—"It’s clear to me that unpaid internships function as affirmative action programs for the already privileged." Seems to me ...
Can't you just hear the conversation at the coctail party - "I just LOOOOVE your dress dahling. Is it a Nikon"?
Picture Postcards?!?
By Ctein You want to be sitting down for this one. I've made pretty clear my heartfelt belief that the future will lie in informational optics and computational photography and that photographic technology will end up looking almost unimaginably different from what we've been using for 150 years...
What a wonderful Sunday morning treat - and the last shot is a hoot. Love it. Love it.
Cheers
John
Random Excellence: Damion Berger
Damion Berger [untitled] This isn't the easiest picture in the world to visually parse. If you're lucky, when you first looked at this you didn't get it right away, and then you did. Made you smile, I bet. I'll give you a hint: it's a perfectly straight photograph, as far as I know. (I hope it ...
The Leica is still the quintecential example of the "simple" camera that takes superb pictures (in the right hands). So is the Zeiss and the Voightlander - and regrettablly the no gone Nikon SP. A venerable Nikon F in the right hands is still a superb picture taking machine.
Just think - what if Zeiss and Voightlander built digital versions of their rangefinder cameras ... without any additional frills. And if Pentax can build a supersealed tank for about the same price of a mid-level model from Nikon or Canon ... what if they just took out all the extraneous technojunk. Gee we might actually go back to focusing (excuse the pun) on photography ... corrcet aperture, appropriate shutter speed, precise focus and the esthetics of the art.
What a revolutionary idea!!!!!
On Simplicity
If my email correspondence is any indication, there's still a good deal of confusion among some readers as to what I mean by a "simple DSLR." I've been asked how a camera can be highly specified (i.e., very well built, with excellent performance) and also be simple. Of course the two aren't mut...
Great babble. But SHOW ME THE PICTURES!!!! I'll wait for something more real world than this.
Canon T1i 500D vs Nikon D90 (specs comparison)
If you are you looking for a new DSLR with Video, and you can't decide between the Canon T1i (500D) and Nikon D90, then you may find this very long spec-comparison article at digitalreview.ca helpful. Obviously we still have to wait for reviews and production-level 500D pictures and such, but unt...
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