Camera Zen

What is the white balance of the dark-frame ?
What is the ISO of the photo not taken ?
What is the shutter count on the camera not bought ?

A disciple once came to Joshu, and asked him: "What is the purpose of the Internet camera forum ?"
Said Joshu: "It is there for the dim and the dull to obsess with brightness and sharpness."

A disciple once came to Joshu, and asked him: "Is it better to shoot RAW or JPEG ?"
"Is it better if I hit you with a sandal or a stick ?" answered Joshu, before hitting the disciple with both.

A disciple once came to Joshu, and asked him: "Which camera has the most Buddha-nature as perceived by minority urban zoomer content creators ?"
"Please click subscribe" replied Joshu.

A disciple once came to Joshu and asked for his help understanding equivalence. Joshu asked all the monks to order themselves from shortest to tallest and had each hit the disciple with a reciprocally sized stick.

A disciple once came to Joshu, and asked him: "Why is it that some photographers turn back to film, when digital cameras are now better than film ever was ?"
Said Joshu: "Because it is the cameras that got better, not they".

A disciple once came to Joshu, and asked him: "What is the best camera and lens for shooting BIF ?"
In response, Joshu turned himself into a bird and flew in circles around the room before defecating on the disciple from above.

It was then that the disciple was enlightened.

It's it, and that's that.
This lightening of the situation is rather needed.
I'm way too serious and full of it too.

To become disciple enlightened which ISO and shutter speed values was chosen? ;)

I liked the koans. However, it was later heard that Joshu’s camera phone was found lying on the floor of the restroom and had to be returned to him, so he could call a cab home.

It simultaneously both exists and does not exist.

The act of immersing the memory card in HC110 collapses the wave function and entangles the lens' iris diaphragm and the electronic shutter.

There is no ambiguity.

Rich

Of course it exists. It inevitably imprinted itself onto the matter of the sensor. You just didn't observe it. Therefore the wavefunction did not collapse, and that is how you get TRUE unsinned RAW image. Except that you are not the receiver. Universe is.

I am not a Lao Zi, but try:

Dao-de Photo:
The Photo that can be filmed of is not the ever-constant Photo.
The Image that can be fixed is not the ever-constant Image.
That which is without-image is the beginning of Sky-Light and Earth-Shadows.
That which possesses a Image is the mother of the ten thousand compositions.

Some older cameras have built-in memory, and now we know why.