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June 19, 09:25 AM

Digital Photography: Careless Power for the Masses

Good June to you, or as we say on Schrute Farms: Guttenjuni!

There is a topic I’ve been meaning to bring up and this appears to be the appropriate time. I have noticed many more people taking photographs of things now that the true start of summer is nearly upon us. Photography is an “art” that I do not endorse. If you’d like to see how something looks, go see it with your own eyes. If you want to see a representation of something, then go look at a drawing or painting. Grandma Mannheim was especially adept at illustrating Strullpeter stories, so don’t try and tell me that photographs are better than drawings. Photographs merely replicate the human visual experience as a frozen moment in time and that insults the eyes and the memory.

When I was a tyke, my family did not have a camera. The general belief was that if a camera were introduced into our lives, our eyes would revolt, leaving us all blind and unable to operate our farm. Now that I’m an adult, I realize that this is unlikely. The eyes are very rational and I think they would adjust to sharing their optical duties with a camera, if a person chose to use such a device. I, however, still refuse to use a camera out of pure ocular respect.

The rise in popularity of so-called “digital cameras” is a direct affront to human biology and it angers me to no end. Traditional film cameras at least have a built-in limit. You can only take photos as long as you have film. When the film is used up, you’re out of luck. On top of that, film is fairly expensive, as is photo development. These costs made liberal camera use cost-prohibitive. Not the case with digital cameras.

Digital cameras allow the amateur photographer the freedom and ability to take six thousand pictures of a baby. Babies should not be photographed in the first place. They never grow up to look anything like they did as a baby, so what’s the point in having a picture of them? You might as well take photos of a small pony because that’s about as close a resemblance as babies have to their future selves and ponies are at least attractive creatures. But I digress. Digital cameras have all the negatives of traditional film cameras with none of the limitations. They’re like a mutated virus – attacking humanity without an antidote.

The biggest problem that I see with digital cameras is that they cause people to place so much less significance on a single image. If Leonardo Da Vinci finished the Mona Lisa and decided he didn’t like her barely detectable smile, would he have just thrown away the entire painting? Of course not. If the Mona Lisa was a digital picture, however, he easily could just pressed a button and the masterpiece would be lost forever. This is the plague of digital cameras. What once was permanent is now digitally expendable.

This is all to say that, even though I savor the taste of victory, I have interest in keeping the digital camera that I won by calling into Froggy 101. If you want to buy this worthless device, go ahead and make me an offer.

That. Is all.

Yours Truly,
Dwight Kurt Schrute

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I agree a lot of digital photos are crap and it has increased the amount on 'noise' on the internet, etc.

That being said, I do believe photography is an art... Like we differ in argument, people have different visual perspectives and I think 'seeing' an object/place in a photograph from someone's perspective can be vastly different from how you see it with your own eyes or how you would 'think' to look at something. There's a beauty in that, that makes photography art.

I'll give you $200 for the camera. Hit me up.

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That camera is crap. I will buy it for next to nothing.

Here are your options. You can sell it for parts, throw it off a cliff, you can donate it to a person that you'd like to see go blind, or you can sell it to me -- and I'll use it as I would a telescope on my farm. It will be mounted on a donkey.

First, I am perplexed by who or what Froggy 101 is.... some raising reptilian guide for dummies I have not heard of? Regardless, your camera, (recognized by the Schrute IP address when you were downloading) has been found to contain inappropriate Attila the Hun and Betty Crocker images.
It is of the utmost importance that I receive this camera IMMEDIATELY. It is to be passed on to Mr. Tree,your future robot (who disguised as a Wiggin is really the simple clone of the second person you became in September 3052)
.........Grrr, I'm getting off track. Don't worry about it, you'll figure it all out later.
Mr.Tree holds the life of the planet in its/her grip. Without these photos we shall all surely perish.
Thank you.
Remember you must put water in the retrieval box in May of 3000!

Give me your camera and I'll give you a pair of nun chucks.

I will buy the camera for $75.00....more if it were to be autographed by Dwight Schrute.

First let me say I'm feeling a bit foolish for commenting on something posted by a fictional character. OK. Onward...

Though I'm in agreement about digital cameras creating visual pollution in the hands of amateurs, If it weren't for an amateur with a digital camera, we might not have realized the country is being led by war criminals.

Wow - should I consider a new hobby!? Almost. Not quite. I'll buy your camera. =)

"I love you. Does it sound weird when i say that. I share your very odd, different, and crazy style Sir, and loved your wacky outfit on Leno. Contrary to your novel above, I believe a camera can be usefully used. Taking pictures of a beautiful sunset or many pretty flower's, or something than can never be seen again is worth it. Freezing beautiful nature in time is still beautiful no matter the which of the 360 degree's you choose to look from. I saw you on Leno at 4 in the morning. Ha Ha. I would like to get in touch with you because you are much more successful than I, but we share the same visions.

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Nonsense!

I refuse your Godless Eye of Digital Blasphemy and invite you to join me in a quest to find and destroy these evil clicking technological minions in a much-needed, worldwide purge.

Conversely, I will give you a picture of a very attractive pony.

I will offer you 3 Shrute bucks for your digital devil camera.

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