Looking through old boxes and items I found some old digital camera and thought about the brief history of cameras during my lifetime. They went from being elaborate devices only to be used by knowledgeable people, to being point and shoot albeit still using film. Then around 20+ years ago the first fully digital cameras came out and they took fairly lousy pictures until the technology caught up with film cameras. All seemed to be heading in the direction of smaller and smaller digital cameras, then along came smart phones which also had lousy cameras in the beginning but are now quite good. Part of the development in smart phone cameras is the lenses and hardware, but the software has grown to be more powerful. Cell phone cameras can stitch images together, adjust focus and depth across the field, and make all manner of adjustments. In the painting there is an older film or digital camera at the bottom right, a more modern digital camera in the middle, and a smart phone camera on the top right. Meanwhile the camera watchers look on.
Camera Watchers, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper November 2023 (No. #3198b)
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