{"id":559,"date":"2005-05-30T09:50:37","date_gmt":"2005-05-30T14:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/05\/30\/another-day-another-dilemma\/"},"modified":"2005-05-30T09:50:37","modified_gmt":"2005-05-30T14:50:37","slug":"another-day-another-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/559","title":{"rendered":"Another day, another dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mombo seemed surprised to see me shooting with the digital camera at Eagle Nest. I suppose she&#8217;s gotten used to that 33-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikonpassion.com\/articles.php?lng=fr&amp;pg=63\">Nikkormat FTn<\/a> in front of my face. I enjoy the immediacy of digital, but haven&#8217;t shaken the nagging discomfort of feeling myself slip away from negative film. Polish cinematographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001405\/\">Janusz Kaminski<\/a> (longtime Spielberg collaborator finishing up &#8220;War of the Worlds&#8221;) has his own more influential misgivings. He worries about &#8220;our ability to preserve history photographically,&#8221; and about &#8220;creating people who accept visually inferior images as the norm.&#8221; For me the economics are forcing a reluctant shift, so I should heed his concerns, maintaining a bank of quality images and making sure they outlive me. If &#8220;digital is degrading our aesthetics,&#8221; as Kaminski fears, there&#8217;s nothing I can do about it. I think it was already happening long before this particular development (probably began with the decline of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftsmanperspective.com\/docs\/history-1920.html\">Arts &amp; Crafts movement<\/a>). However, I can refuse to give up my desire to document my family in a way that perhaps no one else in my generation is suited to achieve. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mombo seemed surprised to see me shooting with the digital camera at Eagle Nest. I suppose she&#8217;s gotten used to that 33-year-old Nikkormat FTn in front of my face. I enjoy the immediacy of digital, but haven&#8217;t shaken the nagging discomfort of feeling myself slip away from negative film. Polish cinematographer Janusz Kaminski (longtime Spielberg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,37,16,6,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}