I heart analog

[giantsloth]

No Country for Old Men? Good. I'm Not There? Not.

I never considered myself a photographer, but I thought I did OK with film cameras. I've still got my manual-everything K-1000, built like a tank. And I took some decent photos with little point-and-shoot film cameras (with nice lenses) too, although it felt weird to give up focus and exposure control. So why am I having such a hard time adjusting to digital? I've got a Panasonic TZ-1 and the results look way too ... mushy. I can't quite wrap my head around why that is, though. Sure, it's not some swank high-end digital SLR, but.

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Comments

[terribleturnip.livejournal.com]

I'm an idiot-savant when it comes to digital (me being the idiot, the camera being the savant...) but does the camera offer choices regarding picture format -- a high res picture takes up a lot more memory, but...personally I can't see any reason to take a low-res picture, even if it means carrying a bunch of memory cards. People do send me digital pictures that they take at one of the low-res settings (Mom, please, use up the memory card, there's NO way you'll ever take 250 pictures without downloading...) and they're...furry.

[giantsloth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've got it cranked up to the highest resolution and quality settings. I think I just need to take a lot more photos with it to comprehend it's strange binary ways.

[megmccarron.livejournal.com]

I liked I'm Not There, with certain significant reservations. What's your take?

[giantsloth.livejournal.com]

I liked the costumes and sets, and as all the reviews state Cate Blanchett did indeed replicate Don't Look Back era Dylan quite well. But even the pieces that were good felt very much like a Whistling Dog. And the rest was a jumble of inside jokes and painfully obvious visual metaphors and "ideas." I don't have any big theories or rules about Necessity but all of the artistic choices--which characters had their real names, which had fake ones, which personas were more naturalistic and which were more fabulous--seemed way too random for my tastes.

For biographical fiction related to Dylan, I highly recommend the Scott Spencer book The Rich Man's Table.

[megmccarron.livejournal.com]

after reading both yours and dave's takes, I think the Blanchett stuff went straight to the center of my little queer heart and the movie could do anything else and I wouldn't care all that much. Watching women womanize and behave like drugged-out boy geniuses... sigh. Though when she would take off the sunglasses and look knowingly I kept thinking of Blanchett-as-elf-queen instead of Dylan.

[giantsloth.livejournal.com]

I thought Cate was good--she was getting pretty close to the center of my heart too--but good to no particular end. Oh, and another thing I forgot to mention: I hate Hate HATE biographies of musicians or "poets" where folks are constantly spouting their lyrics or poetry in everyday conversations.

As always, de gustibus etc.