Midsomer Murders

cooligPhoto

Did anybody see Midsomer Murders on RTE on Saturday?

My model cancelled her photo shoot so I had time to kill and was working on my new website with the TV on in the background.

It was all about photographers killing each other off. Seemed to be mainly around the film vs digital camps. The "filmies" all wore "photographers" vests while the "digies" all wore black with their cameras (including flash) hanging around their necks while they walked around.

I was in tears of laughter.

Is this what the photography world is really like when people get together?

Fajitas!

Jesus, we would have had an interesting time at Charleville Castle over the weekend if it was

No, it's not really, you'll find people with a bone to pick, but their gear is the least of your worries if that's their arguements main point!!!

cooligPhoto

It actually depicted the film camp as backward, obstinate characters. Very sheepish and set in their ways. Photographing wierd things like half-eaten biscuits (with flash not firing, autowind sound but manually winding camera).

The digital camp were depicted as bullies who wore black and were very forceful and spent more time on the laptop modifying their (boring) sunset photos than actually taking pictures.

One scene the filmies were taking their usual, uninteresting, 9am picture of the street (as they have for 70 years) when 3 digies came marching round the corner in black. The filmies went diving into the shop and tried to lock the door to keep the digies out. Needless to say the digies barged in. The shop even had "NO DIGITAL CAMERAS SOLD HERE" in the window.

Very sad depictions.

Fajitas!

That's pretty hilarious tbh. Sounds like a big piss take of a piss take!!!

Who won?

cooligPhoto

I guess the digies won by default.

The murderer happened to be the most wimpiest of the filmies camp whose father was the obstinate, anti-technical one.

Turns out he fancied a model that the two murdered guys (one film, one digital) were chasing after.

I'm making sure I have my Minolta film camera at the bottom of my bag just in case !!!

And be careful - the filmie was strangled with his light meter strap while the digie was strangled with the neck strap of his D2X (I'm worried, I have a D2X - might get a different neck strap).

Calina

Yes, and did you see teh one where they had the girl photographing the crime scene with what looked like a 350D that could capture detail beyond teh ability of NASA in the dark outside?

Thirdfox

Calina wrote: »

Yes, and did you see teh one where they had the girl photographing the crime scene with what looked like a 350D that could capture detail beyond teh ability of NASA in the dark outside?

Damn, I should have gone with Canon then (unbelievable resolution whereas buying Nikon gets you killed )

Oh and I regularly for no good reason walk around in black with my camera (with flash attached)...doesn't everyone do that? :P

edit: that reminds me of the scene from Blade Runner - "zoom in, left, stop, zoom in quadrant 17..." and spots the killer's face from the reflection in the mirror

Mellor

Calina wrote: »

Yes, and did you see teh one where they had the girl photographing the crime scene with what looked like a 350D that could capture detail beyond teh ability of NASA in the dark outside?

Now Calli, you know all too well that the 350D is the bestest camera ever,
and the canon actually had to stop selling it, removed the technology patent, and tone it down for the 400D, as it treatened to put 1000s of R&D techs out of work for at least 23 years

Calina

Cal has a 350D and loved it to bits until the 40D came along and then...

but still, seriously and all...

cooligPhoto

Thirdfox wrote: »

Oh and I regularly for no good reason walk around in black with my camera (with flash attached)...doesn't everyone do that? :P

You Bully :cool:

The camera has to be hanging round your neck, facing forward with a zoom lens (whereas the "filmies" in MM only ever have the standard 50mm).