I don’t necessarily want to disagree with you, just mention that there are examples were the new thing was the old thing, only on computers. One would be digital photography. Sure, photography got a lot faster but it’s basically still the same thing. Changes have been slow and only recently began to have an impact.
And I don’t think Canon or Nikon did anything wrong. I think that it was probably correct to understand digital photography as analog photography – only on computers – first and look which places you can go only after you executed that perfectly.
The point is not that there isn't a point of overlap, the point is that the digital world can go many more places. Every digital camera I've ever bought has come with photo manipulation software that may include various physically-inspired tools, but also goes above and beyond what can be done in analog. Any company that tried to be just "analog photos, but on computers" would be stomped in the marketplace. I have found digital photography to be a qualitatively different experience than analog photography for over a decade now.
(Which isn't to say the digital experience is all pros and no cons; photography has held on to some "pros" longer than many other fields.)
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I don’t necessarily want to disagree with you, just mention that there are examples were the new thing was the old thing, only on computers. One would be digital photography. Sure, photography got a lot faster but it’s basically still the same thing. Changes have been slow and only recently began to have an impact.
And I don’t think Canon or Nikon did anything wrong. I think that it was probably correct to understand digital photography as analog photography – only on computers – first and look which places you can go only after you executed that perfectly.
The point is not that there isn't a point of overlap, the point is that the digital world can go many more places. Every digital camera I've ever bought has come with photo manipulation software that may include various physically-inspired tools, but also goes above and beyond what can be done in analog. Any company that tried to be just "analog photos, but on computers" would be stomped in the marketplace. I have found digital photography to be a qualitatively different experience than analog photography for over a decade now.
(Which isn't to say the digital experience is all pros and no cons; photography has held on to some "pros" longer than many other fields.)
> ...the new thing was the old thing, only on computers. One would be digital photography.
And that led the Flickr and Photoblogs & Tumblr. Not the same thing if you ask me.
Eventually. At a time when pros were already routinely shooting with expensive digital gear that looked and worked a lot like the analog ancestor.