Both these updates sound great...But...

Firstly the group overhauling sounds excellent. I'm glad to start seeing improvements in that area. However, does anyone feel that the new camera controls may hurt the Photography "profession". For those of us who were already skilled with the camera and many of whom (or I assume, this is why I am asking) who could be using that as one of their main job skills?


I'm not saying the controls don't sound fantastic (I'm just reading of the updates now so I have yet to try them). However it seems that it could close the door on being a photographer because everyone will be a professional then.

And the availability of high quality cameras endangers the jobs of professional photograpers? So we should limit non-pros to instamatics?

Serriously, you're worrying about nothing. Better tools will not make up for lack of skills. It may force you to hurry up and learn to do a better job of using the new tools in order to keep up your advantage in skills, but that's up to you.

Such advancements will not automatically make an amateur a professional.

They will make some amateurs professional.

They can make professionals even better by freeing them up to be more creative.


So while the amateur can achieve higher quality the standard of excellence is likely to go up.

We all win by getting better material on the average.

How ironic... wasn't that one of the complaints about the development of the camera? That it would make painting obsolete?

Well, didn't it?

No.

Hmmmm well I wouldn't know since the camera was there for me since birth.

Also, theres a HUGE difference between Painting and Photography. If you don't know the difference perhaps you should visit your local art museum more often. Sure they are both considered FORMS of ART but still very much different.

Anyway I asked a simple question or two, thanks for the overwhelmingly rude responses which pretty much leads me to my origional conclusion; that these forums are worthless because everytime someone asks a simple question everyone jumps on them like they are screaming FIRE FIRE FIRE. I didn't scream FIRE or anything close to it There's no worry or concern here. I was lookin for some different points of views is all, I'm no where near worried about it as I have many other talents besides the camera. If I didn't maybe then I'd of screamed fire and deserved some of these responses.

Oh yea and I looooooove the way your opinions are so much better than anyone else's.

Thanks for the warm feedback all of you

There's a huge difference betwen taking snapshots and being a photographer, too.
Hold on there, bucky. Calling people out for rudeness when there ain't any such thing in their message, and goin' on with a middlin' rude rant yourself... well, that's just not neigborly. And you know what we do with un-neigborly people in these parts, don't you son?

Actually Pandora you're probably just in a bad mood. I read through here and this was the first response i recognized as being offensive. Everyone else stated opinions and used wording to make their ideas clear but did nto attack anyone else. You did. Take a breather and if it helps read everything on a forum as though Ben Stein was the speaker. Helps keep a level head when you remove the emotional aspects.

As to the original topic:

It will let professionals have yet an additional tool to do even better work than what they were already doing. It will allow amatures to get a 'base level' better than what previously existed.

Everyone wins by an overall higher quality of work being done. Professionals will remain such. Amatures will remain such unless this tool is one that inspires them to do more. Its still a positive feature and far from detrimental in any regards.

If you think it will steal business then try doing yoru job _for fun_. This is a game after all (even if it supports economics). If you ENJOY your work first and foremost you will want to do a better job and you will CARE more about your work as enjoyment is a much better motivator than greed.

I love taking a lot of pictures in SL. The new snapshots controls confused me for awhile. I would also like the option to revert to old behavior, or at least not be frozen when that floater is up (*that* still confuses me).

I remember this discussion of a similar sort rising, when "studio in a boxes" started coming to desktop computers. Owners of mega audio hardware were concerned this would suddenly flood the market with quality techno.

But no, that didn't happen. *smile*