Just in case my blog didn’t have enough typos already, I’ve discovered the WordPress application for iPhone, which I used to give appropriate credit to David Williams in my previous post. I may use this space for fleeting photography-related thoughts that are not quite fleeting enough for Twitter.
I’m on my way to two client meetings now. I have a nice little space in my office to greet clients properly, but a lot of the couples I work with are nose-to-the-grindstone New Yorkers, so I come to them when I can. While packing, my old RAZR phone fell out of a drawer,and I realized something: the ever-changing tech world drops values more than we may realize. While it’s shocking that a phone that, just a few years ago, was a super-expensive luxury item is now too cheap to bother selling, it gets worse. How much would someone have to pay *me* to go back to just a normal cell phone, even a sleek one? North of $1,000, for sure, given how useful smartphones are for small businesses. How much would someone have to pay me to shoot weddings with my old “Frankencamera,” the Fuji S2? I shudder to think.
How quick people are to adapt to their environments. I did fine with that old camera, which churned out great files for its time. Before long we’ll all wonder how we could have shot anything without ISO 5 billion, as we watch the burgeoning field of “inside a closed refrigerator” photography.
What piece of tech would you never, ever part with, even though you were decently happy before it existed?
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Tre Lathon - Three words: Global. Positioning. System.
Love your work!
Josh Mitchell - I give credit myself to igniting your iPhone fire.
Mark G - Microsoft Zune. I had an iPod before, and the iTunes program would slowly but surely run my PC to the ground (every time I would uninstall it, my PC would work again). The iPods themselves died twice (!) on me.
Now that I have Zune, no issues whatsoever for almost two years now.