Five Year (and a bit!) Anniversary

[Gary Ferguson]

I was skimming through some LL reviews today and realised the pivotal Canon D30 review is now a little over five years old. What a lot has happened since. A hundred years from now, when the definitive history of digital photography is finally written, I'm sure that particular D30 review will be seen as being of seminal importance. Looking at it again today the thing that strikes me is the clarity of the conclusion, when everyone else was havering and wavering it was emphatic, this camera IS better than 35mm film.

What's been your abiding memory from the first five years of "serious" digital? Mine is a toe-curling embarrassment at how much USM I used in those early days!

[benInMA]

I would expect even 30 years from now no one will care at all about websites that focused on equipment reviews & tips.  They will still exist but they won't really be part of photographic history that is remembered and discussed.

I would expect great photographers & photographs will be remembered but little emphasis will be put on the cameras they used, just as the case is now if you look at great works from the film era.

[Gary Ferguson]

I'm not so sure, look at the volumes written about the f64 group, or the role of cyanotypes, or the various pictorialist schisms. Like it or not, this is the meat and two veg of history, and it's chronicled in minute detail on web forums like these.