Lately, the market share for SLR cameras over DigiCams has grown by a huge margin. Probably coz of the fact being more guys are willing and able to spend for high quality pictures. DigiCams are slowly turning out to be a thing of the past with new smart phones having equally dominant specs and ease of use.
Now when Instagram came to the Iphone 2 years back, every Idiot became an Artist!! True fact. But again why not? Simple to apply filters, saves time, cost effective and easily uploadable online. And unfortunately Android was denied Instagram services until a few days back. After Facebook took over Instagram on April 12th, the first thing they did was release it to the Android market. Clever move and immediate income! SLR's will still rule the roost for hardcore photographers, until we see some new cost effective technology entering the market. And that won't be far away.
So my point is, how do you define a photographer these days?
Are they the ones who used the conventional filmroll cameras to bring out the best in reality without any additional effects?
Are they the ones who now use SLR cameras capturing frames, saving it digitally and photo-shopping it for added effects?
Or are they simply guys with instagram installed on their phones with filters added to produce equally interesting snaps?
To me I'd have to go with the first group, but you just cant ridicule a person for the simplicity in use. I read this article that gives different points of view by 2 writers from the site theverge.
Btw all my mobile uploads are instagrammed! ;)
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