Is Photography Dying

5 years 1 week ago #640538 by Fess Walker
I don't understand why they put out this video?  They even talk about the reason right in the video.  Everyone knows camera sales peaked around 2012.  No big secret here why it dropped and continued to drop.  That chart represents the masses.  Well the masses stopped buying the cheap point and shoot cameras and started to just use their cameras built into their phones.  So of course, numbers went down.  Let's overlay another chart over this one for Apple and Samsung smart phone sales for same time period.  I would bet we would see a climb in sales.

I would bet if these doom and gloomers could extract the 'masses' from these charts and look at serious photographers spending patterns, this chart would be NO WHERE near as dramatic.  Surprised that these supposed to be smart people, push this negative crap out there. 




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5 years 1 week ago #640539 by Nikon Shooter

Fess Walker wrote: I don't understand why they put out this video?


They are using all the tricks in the book to attract viewers.

The title should read
Is Photography the point and shoot dying? … and who cares?

Light is free… capturing it is not!
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5 years 1 week ago #640544 by the four vignettes

Nikon Shooter wrote:

Fess Walker wrote: I don't understand why they put out this video?


They are using all the tricks in the book to attract viewers.

The title should read
Is Photography the point and shoot dying? … and who cares?


+1

I've ditched the Northrups.  They've really upped the click bait and I can't think of the last time I watched one of their videos and enjoyed it. 


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5 years 1 week ago #640545 by Chris Briggs
Click bate central.

Seriously watching the Northrups videos remind me of of SNL Delicious Dish.  Watch just 30 seconds of the Northrup video, and then watch one of these clips.  You'll see!! 

LMAO!!!!







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5 years 1 week ago #640595 by Chuck Liley
What?  I think not.  


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5 years 1 week ago #640611 by Sanford
That SNL clip is spot on! :rofl:  Are they still airing that bit? 


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5 years 1 week ago #640733 by Pettigrew
+1  Apples reported revenue:
2018$265,595
2017$229,234
2016$215,639
2015$233,715
2014$182,795
2013$170,910
2012$156,508
2011$108,249
2010$65,225
2009$42,905
2008$37,491
2007$24,578
2006$19,315
2005$13,931

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5 years 1 week ago #640743 by Pettigrew

Chris Briggs wrote: Click bate central.

Seriously watching the Northrups videos remind me of of SNL Delicious Dish.  Watch just 30 seconds of the Northrup video, and then watch one of these clips.  You'll see!! 

LMAO!!!!








lmao, thank you, look at my last time stamp!  1 hour 20 minutes ago.  I started watching these video's and YouTube sucked me in!  OK, now I'm out of time.  Thank you for the good laugh. 

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5 years 6 days ago #640783 by Paul Velasco
Photography will never die.  It's a medium used to record history.  Click bate title.  


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5 years 6 days ago #640874 by Chase Audate
I hope not!   Can you image the world with no photography?  


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5 years 4 days ago #640952 by KenMan
 I watched 30 seconds of this and had enough. 


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5 years 2 days ago #641200 by Fitch
So should I thank Square Space for sponsoring this poorly framed up video?  What's with people these days just coming out with content that is poorly thought out?  Photography isn't going anywhere.  The tools that we use perhaps will change, they always do.  Doesn't mean people are less interested in preserving memories.   


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5 years 2 days ago #641219 by Nikon Shooter

Fitch wrote: Doesn't mean people are less interested in preserving memories.   


Reading this, my daughter said…
"Recording images and sounds is cool but what about
smells and tastes?"
… too late for me to do anything!

Light is free… capturing it is not!
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5 years 43 minutes ago #641671 by Paul Velasco

Nikon Shooter wrote:

Fitch wrote: Doesn't mean people are less interested in preserving memories.   


Reading this, my daughter said…
"Recording images and sounds is cool but what about
smells and tastes?"
… too late for me to do anything!


Yeah, but that's different.  Good point, but civilizations have never made it a point to record smells and tastes.  


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4 years 11 months ago #643301 by donmammoser
I don’t think so. In the contrary, it is growing now more than ever, The digital technology helped a lot in this area, almost every one today have a camera, either in his phone or additional digital one.


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