Template talk:Photography
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[edit] Isn't this a very old-fashioned view of photography?
I'm guessing that young people today will find very little of interest in this template. They'll be scratching their heads and wondering why things like digital photography, DSLRs, digicams, and mobile telephones aren't anywhere to be found.
If there are no objections I'll try to add some more up-to-date stuff tomorrow or the next day. --RenniePet (talk) 07:17, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
- Some of the content is clearly of historical interest only: e.g. daguerrotype, gum printing. Contrary to that is Lomography, a present-day marketing gimmick. Film format (listed) should be paired with Image sensor format (not listed). There's some other stuff that's specific to film, so I suppose digital could be added. But three of your four examples are of newish kinds of cameras, and the template doesn't do much in the way of listing oldish ones.
- It would be easy to add "DSLR", "SLR", "rangefinder camera", "camera phone", "TLR". "folding camera", "subminiature camera" and more just for cameras; and then to add "Print Club", "Photoshop", "sharpening", "gamma", etc etc as other terms that have recently either emerged or been popularized. What would you then wind up with? I think it would be a bloody great big template that would encumber rather than help an article on which it appeared.
