So tired of the iPhone culture

It's just written that way to cover them for when people share an image and they have no control over where it will appear. Same as Facebook.

I'm sure they have no intention to sell images despite what paranoid minds think!


Steve.

riiiiiight, riiiiiiight...

Pretty much sums up what I don't like about Instagram and why I don't use it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...-self-delusion

There are many legalese options that could cover their butt without the language that seizes copyright. With corporations it usually boils down to what they can get away with, not what's fair or right.

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Originally Posted by Darkroom317

Pretty much sums up what I don't like about Instagram and why I don't use it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...-self-delusion

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Wow! What a fantastic article. Goes way beyond stupid instagram and addresses the whole degradation of amateur photography. Thanks for sharing.

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Originally Posted by Darkroom317

Pretty much sums up what I don't like about Instagram and why I don't use it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...-self-delusion

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"...but really you are the servant of a computerised eye."

Ken

With professional photographers struggling to make much money from their stock pictures, I find it hard to believe that Instagram could make anything from Instagram type oversaturated, filterered snapshots of nothingness.


Steve.

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Originally Posted by BradS

I was out for eats and drinks at a local jazz place the other night and all around me folks are whipping out their smart phone, taking photos and doing whatever they do with 'em after that.

Nobody gives this kind of activity a second thought these days...

so why is it that every time I pull out a camera, I get at least one, usually several people standing around staring at me and asking dumb stuff like,

"What kinda camera is that?"
"can you still get film for that?"
"how many mega pixels is that?"
"Is that black and white?"

and the one I really dislike....

"Why would you use that?"

Why can't people just leave me the F&%^$ alone and let me photograph stuff like all the iPhone wielding people?

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Brad, do you have something specifically against Apple and its iPhone, or don't you realize that the majority of "smart" phones sold are Android platform? Your complaint about the smart phone culture is well placed, but targetting specifically Apple without mentioning Samsung, et al, is simply unfair.

And no, I don't own a smart phone myself.

~Joe

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Originally Posted by Joe VanCleave

And no, I don't own a smart phone myself.

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Neither do I. I don't even own an averagely intelligent phone. My only phone is plugged into a socket on the wall.


Steve.

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Originally Posted by Darkroom317

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...-self-delusion

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Cynical, but true.