Yes We Canon, or Maybe Nikon

A WATERSHED HAPPENED THIS WEEK, though you may not have noticed. Barack Obama, already setting a number of historic “firsts,” had the very first Presidential portrait in history to be taken without the aid of film. Digital culture has proven its artistic hegemony once again.
A photographer friend of mine used to have the phrase “Digital Photography” on his business cards, when he was the only one in town doing digital. This was back in the Dark Ages, you know, five years ago. Now, digital imaging is so omnipresent in the commercial world that my friend eventually removed the phrase. No more red-lighted darkrooms, mysterious trays of magical liquids, or photo-sensitive paper you had to handle with tongs fresh out of their chemical bath. Now it’s Photoshop and a high-quality ink-jet printer all the way.
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