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I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

DSLRs take beautiful pictures, but they are hard to focus.

— Ren Ng

On the personal side, I was rock climbing and taking pictures with my friends. We took all sorts of portrait and action pictures, and I was thinking at the time that these are inherently difficult to focus correctly.

— Ren Ng

Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot.

— Ren Ng

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

— Edward Burtynsky

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.

— Howard Hodgkin

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

— Bill Viola

TV helped me understand camera angles, close-ups, master shots.

— Sushant Singh Rajput

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

— David Hockney

Each feature I make is my focus at that time.

— Richard King

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't get tripped up in technology. I use technology as a tool. 'Oldboy' we shot Two Pro 35mm. For 'Da Blood of Jesus,' we shot digitally. We shot the new Sony F55. It's a 4K camera.

— Spike Lee