A golden age of technology, RUINED!

[Zombie Mastermind]

Digital, Hi-def, Blu-ray.

An amazingly clear, crisp picture viewed on advanced machinery with fantastic sound clarity.

What is the point of all this, when the majority of moving images in the last few years have been recorded on shitty phone-cameras?

When future generations look back at the first few years of this century and what was recorded, the documents left to them will be out of focus, with poor sound and most likely the "money shot" will be obscured by another genius waving a similar lo-fi recording device.

It's not just bad quality clips on Youtube. The news is now increasingly covered by reporters using lap-top cams to film themselves at the site of important and possibly historic events.

Do we really want our history preserved in this way?

People should use 'phones as 'phones and cameras as cameras. That way, the recording device can be tweaked and honed to do it's job exclusively. Not just be an added bonus that is a bit of fun for kids to play with and idiots to use at concerts, obscuring my view of the stage.

Footage from 50 years ago is better quality than the crap we are now familiar with.

Is this good enough?

No it is not.

[timey]

It's what I've always said too, ZM. The majority of digital stuff is either so cmpressed that you can see all the belmishes with our new technology or it is too big and wieldy to play.

And as for the phones and cameras I have only ever used my phone as a camera in an emergency, i.e. when someone wanted a picture and I didn't have my camera with me, but it is no substitiute for a real camera. When I intend to take pictures, I take my camera with me and I use my camcorder for film. But you can't get a phone these days without it having to come with a 5 megapixel camera. It's loony.