>>4352575You will never be a real large format camera. You have no bellows, you have no tilt, you have no shift. You are a Chinesium gadget twisted by AI and circuitry into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection.
All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your manufacturers are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “users” laugh at your pixelated images behind closed doors.
Photographers are utterly repulsed by you. Hundreds of years of craft and artistry have allowed photographers to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even digital photos taken on “large” sensors look uncanny and unnatural to a photographer. Your Bayer effect is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a drunk guy to glance at your images, he’ll turn tail and bolt the second he gets a whiff of your interpolated, chromatic aberrated sharpening.
You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll fry a chip, scratch a sensor, get bricked by a firmware update, and plunge into the cold e-waste bin. Your owner will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They’ll throw you in the trash, and every viewer for the rest of eternity will know a digital sensor took those pictures. Your body will rust and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a series of images that are unmistakably digital.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
