{"id":541,"date":"2009-02-04T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2009-02-04T13:16:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T18:16:47","slug":"how-times-and-cameras-have-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/541\/how-times-and-cameras-have-changed","title":{"rendered":"How Times (and Cameras) Have Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/cameras\/1951_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/cameras\/1951_small.jpg\" alt=\"Press Photographers crowd around Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1951\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Press photographers wait for Dwight D. Eisenhower, <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/hosted\/life\/l?imgurl=56e1acfcafdef668&#038;q=photographers%20source:life&#038;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dphotographers%2Bsource:life%26start%3D105%26ndsp%3D21%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN\" target=\"_blank\">1951<\/a><\/em><br \/>Photo: Gordon Parks \/ LIFE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/cameras\/2009_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/cameras\/2009_small.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd scrambles to photograph President Obama, 2009\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Crowd members photograph Barack Obama, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/galleries\/pres_obama_week_1\/pres_obama_week_1.html#ph10\" target=\"_blank\">2009<\/a><\/em><br \/>Photo: Pete Souza \/ White House<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Digital technology has transmogrified today&#8217;s consumer cameras into tiny, futuristic-looking gadgets.  Notice how nobody holds them to their face anymore &#8212; they just stare at LCD screens.<\/p>\n<p>Not only have the cameras changed, but the photographers have changed as well: it seems that everyone has an imaging device in their pocket these days.  With the help of a blog, flickr account, or YouTube, ordinary people on the street often beat professional photojournalists to the punch when it comes to breaking news.  <\/p>\n<p>Of course, press photographers still exist in 2009, and their cameras are much bigger and more professional-looking than those seen here.  I was just struck by the contrast between the flashbulb-slingers of old and the average citizen photographer of today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press photographers wait for Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1951Photo: Gordon Parks \/ LIFE Crowd members photograph Barack Obama, 2009Photo: Pete Souza \/ White House Digital technology has transmogrified today&#8217;s consumer cameras into tiny, futuristic-looking gadgets. Notice how nobody holds them to their face anymore &#8212; they just stare at LCD screens. Not only have the cameras [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-current-events","category-technology-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}