Guy Mancuso
Administrator, Instructor
Your last line says it all. The new culture simply wants everything for free. We want free apps. For our iPhone , free Facebook ( NO ONE will ever pay for it). Free this and free that. Free service and repair, don't want to pay for warranties. I have two children and all the friends that comes with that here in my home. The attitude of the young generation is simply this I deserve it be it I earned it or not and I want it for free . The key here is they are simply saturated with technology and the new social media attention and they pay nothing for social media but want everything else to be free like Facebook . It's the work ethic that's slipping away along with the cultural change of if I whine enough I'll get what I want.That's what I don't understand in the whole digital vs analog debate. There is *no* difference in degree of difficulty between a digital and analog camera. You can go as shallow or as deep with either one. If you want to go beyond a simple analog point&shoot.. you can learn everything there is to know about the operation of a manual camera in a weekend class. It's not rocket science. As far as analog vs digital output.. also none. I can push though as many darkroom prints /hour as my 24" HP z3100 printer. I can, if I choose, spend days working on the output for both as well. I probably go back and change my 'final' digital files as often as I would change the look of my analog prints.
My guess would be that the decrease in quality of photographic output has more to do with cultural changes (attention spans of a flea, instant gratification, decrease in importance of 'quality') than on the tools being used.
I'm not saying my kids are lazy or anything like that and there great kids but there whole life around them has radically changed from when I was that age. Simply this we would ride 10 miles on a bike to a friends house today it's hey dad give me a ride. LOL
Hell maybe they are the smart ones.