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There's no point at which turning your brain off will work

204 points · 156 comments · robin_reala

dzink · 1789752442 · focus · HN ↗
You are a photographer from the olden age. Taking a photo back then took forever. You are standing on a hill trying to get the perfect picture of a sunset. You measure and sort and calculate angles and light. A tourist stands next to you with an high-speed iphone auto-settings camera. They spin around and get thousands of photos from different angles while you are thinking and measuring your one shot. That’s what AI does. It gives you many shots at the same problem. The thinking guy with the one approach will likely lose a photo competition to one of the accidentally better shots of the person who tried a lot more. Make and filter now may be a better approach than overthink and try only once.
1. Arodex · 1789752788 · focus · HN ↗
  And how do you get a person able to nail "that one shot" when the moment is fleeting? Your "tourist" is unable to do it, because he never put any deliberate practice in photography.
  Incidentally, analog film photography is having a huge revival, and Instax is still Fujifilm's best seller. Maybe there is something missing from "I did an award-winning photo but I have have no clue how, lol".
  Is there anybody here who wants to have their portrait taken by the "tourist"? Is there anyone here who would prompt an AI to generate their portrait, apart from Ghibli-style remixes (which are funny five minutes, and stale a month later)?
  1. ourmandave · 1789753319 · focus · HN ↗
    Fuji also sells an Instax printer so you can "print your smartphone images in seconds."
    <a href="https://www.instax.com/printer/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instax.com/printer/
    Also the AI powered instax Up! app...
    Have even more fun with the instax UP!™ app. With the introduction of AI, you can now scan an instax™ photo regardless of the background or angle, or even in your hand.
    Arodex · 1789765163 · focus · HN ↗
    Yes, Fuji tries to cover all use cases and user demands. But the one getting increasingly successful is the pure analog one:
    <a href="https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/instant-cameras/fujifilms-instant-film-is-so-popular-that-instax-production-is-increasing-again-for-the-third-time-in-four-years" rel="nofollow">https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/instant-cameras/f...
    <a href="https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/instant-cameras/6-year-old-fujifilm-camera-is-suddenly-popular-exceeding-sales-expectations-in-japan-and-production-cannot-keep-up-thanks-to-a-new-trend" rel="nofollow">https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/instant-cameras/6...
    Incidentally, the memory price increase is going to hit hard the "hybrid" cameras - the ones who take a digital picture and then print it out. So the pure analog one may increase its predominance over the "hybrid" one.
    <a href="https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/fujifilm-is-breaking-records-but-the-memory-crisis-is-hitting-so-hard-even-instax-is-affected-is-a-price-change-coming" rel="nofollow">https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/fujifilm-is-break...
  2. anon84873628 · 1789761329 · focus · HN ↗
    Well now the phones actually take a video over a period of time so you can pick the best shot.
    But a better analogy is how we hired a guy to take photos of us in front of the Eiffel tower on Christmas day. He came with a DSLR, directed the different poses, then sent us the photos later that day. Whole thing took less than 20 minutes.
    It's the fact that the floor has been lowered so substantially.
    Of course every modernized, automated craft ends up having its hobbyist revival. Whether it's analog photography, hand tool woodworking, knitting, assembly programming, or whatever. And that's lovely, but it doesn't mean much for economic trends.

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