19th February 2010, 04:10 PM
I've never been on a site which required the use of a professional photographer, except where the press was involved ("hold that skull a little higher. That's it!"), but joking aside, I am concerned about the loss of photography skills among the field staff. Digital cameras definitely have their place in modern fieldwork. However, old manual SLRs shouldn't be replaced with pocket-sized digital point-and-shoot cameras - if they are replaced it should be with decent digital SLRs.
It's the kind of thing that should be picked up by a curator in a WSI- if the WSI talks about recording with digital cameras, they should specify hi-res digital SLRs. Otherwise I could just go out with my camera phone, snap away and have a photographic record of the site.
It's the kind of thing that should be picked up by a curator in a WSI- if the WSI talks about recording with digital cameras, they should specify hi-res digital SLRs. Otherwise I could just go out with my camera phone, snap away and have a photographic record of the site.
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