Imagine 7 minutes to take a picture! Of course someday people will look back on our computers, cellphones and such and have similar comments.
So fascinating.
Imagine 7 minutes to take a picture!
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I really had never given this much thought until about 7-8 years ago. My sister and I were viewing a photograph in a brewery in upstate NY. The photo depicted ancestors of the brewer. It was a family in the picture — mother and father and about 6 kids. When my sister remarked on the fact that nobody was smiling, the bartender/descendant reminded her that everyone had to be still for about 10 minutes.
Yes, the advances in technology are just amazing.
“someday people will look back on our computers, cellphones and such and have similar comments.”
I’ve watched this with the onset of digital photography.
People now have no idea of how low resolution digital images were, and more importantly the minuscule space available to accumulate images in. When document scanning and processing hit mainstream, computing power was devoted to throwing away as much of the image as possible and still be legally viable, resulting in artifacts which confuse the he11 out of conspiracy theorists today.
And today, there is a great deal of a picture we are not capturing: wave phase, impinging angles, and other data not stored in part because doing so requires orders of magnitude more bandwidth & storage - which when achieved, will make our current photos look as absurd as that “first human photo”.