Music industry bows to point-and-shoot cameras

Cnet ^ | November 10, 2009 4:00 AM PST | Daniel Terdiman

[discostu]

If you look closely you’ll see that there are no other steps on point and shoot, that in fact the name is also the complete list of directions. Thus showing you have no case.

If this is actually something important to you, and not just you being a curmudgeon, the difference between point-and-shoot and auto-focus is important to you. Because they actually are two different types of cameras. The cameras aren’t “auto-anything”, that would actually be exactly the kind of name you’re saying (incorrectly) that point-and-shoot is, without meaning and expressing nothing. The most import attribute of a point-and-shoot camera is that the label is the directions, you do nothing to it before pointing, and you do nothing between the pointing and the shooting. They are point and shoot.

[discostu]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/point-and-shoot Main Entry: point–and–shoot Function: adjective Date: 1975 : having or using preset or automatically adjusted controls (as for focus or shutter speed)

[AFreeBird]

But unlike a film camera, digital cameras have those bright back panels that can be disracting to the audience members in back.

LOL

Sorry. Umm you check out the bright panels on the back of any digitals, even the point and shoots? Oh and lets not forget all the screen real estate on an iPhone.

[Since 2009-07-21]

Point-and-shoot is not in the dictionary. It’s one of those little buzz-phrases that hipsters love and which die out in short order.


Actually "point-and-shoot" is in the American Heritage Dictionary. Just sayin'.
Doh!
I think "just sayin'" is another buzz-phrase, too.
Doh! I think "doh!" is a buzzword. Damn it!

[discostu]

I think buzzword is a buzzword ;)

[Since 2009-07-21]

My head’s buzzing.

[packrat35]

Guess it shows my age but in the 70’s, you could take pictures at concerts. They mainly checked for tape recorders.

[reagan_fanatic]

I think so, too. I’ve just got a run of the mill Kodak 12MP camera, and I can shoot a pic just as good as the first one.

Not all that impressive if you ask me.

[Dixie Yooper]

Good recommendations but, just in case someone is looking, I believe you mean the Panasonic Lumix FZ-28 and FZ-35. There is also the Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3 which is smaller and has a 12x zoom

Thanks for the correction! I should know better since just two months ago I bought a Panasonic Lumix FZ-35 for my wife. She really wanted the FZ-28 just like my sister's, but I couldn't find a new one anywhere, not even Ebay. Since getting it, neither of us have even bothered to pull out the heavy SLR.

[a fool in paradise]

The best bootlegs from the 1970s came directly from the soundboard. That and “King Biscuit” type syndicated concert broadcasts that would be pressed “independently” after the legit limited pressing was released to radio stations.

Bruce Springsteen built his reputation from the extended concert broadcasts on radio and those bootleg recordings.

[a fool in paradise]

It’s also why people texting in a movie theater can be a nusiance.

[Mr_Moonlight]

~~~ PING ~~~

Not much new info in the article or within the thread, but it does touch on a few points which we've discussed before re this topic

-- MM

[June K.]

Thanks for the *Ping*, MM.

It was interesting reading but, as you said, there’s nothing much new here.....The fact of the matter is, as time goes on, it will become more and more impossible to keep cameras out so they might as well just get used to it!

~~What we’ve been saying for years!~~

Junie K.

[Mr_Moonlight]

~~What we’ve been saying for years!~~

Paul McCartney was anal about fans bringing cameras in 2002, as was Rush several years later --- word at those concerts was "ABSOLUTELY NO CAMERAS!", and security was enforcing it too! Really bad PR for Macca at the time, but even he has relaxed since then, as I was shooting away at Shea (ooops, CitiField) along with tens of thousands of others, with no problem this year

But The Who was really cool about it in 2004 and again in 2006-07-08 ... I just waltzed right in with my camera in clear view at MSG, and all security cared about was that I wasn't carrying a weapon .... (although I *was* carrying a "Rock Fist", dunno if that qualifies as a weapon :P) /laughs

Dan Fogelberg in 2003 also didn't care too much about cameras, however he did ask the audience to not take any pics during his acoustic set, as it was distracting to him playing those delicate quiet pieces, he asked and the audience complied .... no sweat ...

-- MM

[packrat35]

I think you should be allowed to kill anyone texting in a movie theater and all their relatives. After a few times, that crap would stop.

One of the main reason I rarely go to movie theaters anymore. Seems almost no one has any class anymore.

[June K.]

Mr_Moonlight,

MM:

“Dan Fogelberg in 2003 also didn't care too much about cameras, however he did ask the audience to not take any pics during his acoustic set, as it was distracting to him playing those delicate quiet pieces, he asked and the audience complied .... no sweat ...”

June:

Oh, my...what I wouldn't give to see Dan one more time...I would gladly leave my camera home! :(
( but I'm getting a little off track here)

I always felt these ‘Stars’ were doing themselves more harm than good by being so adamant about the no camera rules! THAT kind of attitude turns me off...Really-if a fan is willing to spend -sometimes-hundreds of dollars for a ticket...besides all of the other expense...why would a ‘star’ want to deprive that fan of the satisfaction of a personal photo of the show! NOT TOO COOL,IMO!

MM:

“But The Who was really cool about it in 2004 and again in 2006-07-08 ... I just waltzed right in with my camera in clear view at MSG, and all security cared about was that I wasn't carrying a weapon .... (although I *was* carrying a “Rock Fist”, dunno if that qualifies as a weapon :P) /laughs”

June:
:) I think ‘Rock Fists’ are allowed!

Junie