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rattymouse wrote:
Today I went to my daughter's Girl Scouts initiation ceremony. There were 26 girls there, all from expat families, (very well off financially). It was the opening ceremony to mark the beginning of the Girl Scout year. A pretty important event in a young girl's life and of course *every* parent there had a camera.
I brought with me my Fujifilm S5 Pro w/ Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 G lens.
EVERY other parent shot this even on either their cell phone (90% or more were iPhones) or iPads.
One "real" camera in the entire crowd. One camera.
I bet a lot of camera making CEO's find it hard to sleep at night these days. The shift away from traditional cameras is enormous.
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You are projecting alot into a single anecdote.
I would wager many of those parents have "real" cameras---fresh ones-- at home.
Cells are the new "instamatic", which were in wide use when I grew up. You very rarely saw SLRs, except in the hands of pros.
A hassie was like a unicorn in the affluent college town of Davis.
But we did have a nice darkroom in junior high, and learned to use it. But the cameras were owned by the school. When I got a new Ftb at 18, I knew no one who owned an SLR--or least carried one when I could see.
Hope you got a good shot of all the parents framing with their i5s
Edited on Sep 20, 2014 at 10:40 AM · View previous versions
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