Pre nekoliko nedelja, lutajući po internetu, naišao sam na ovaj članak, iz 2005, koji mi od tada ne izbija iz glave.
Članak se prvenstveno bavi fotografijom, ali može se primeniti i na hardver uopšte.
Isečak:
One thing that’s been a problem among photographers since the dawn of the Daguerreotype has been what I call the “Magic Bullet” syndrome. People assign “goodness” to certain technical parameters (sometimes with pretty good justification, sometimes not so good), and then fanatically pursue the most extreme available manifestations of those parameters and hysterically argue the fine points. Why? It’s clearly more than mere product evaluation and technical interest. My feeling is that people are hoping for, and looking for, a “magic bullet”—some trick or technique or piece of equipment that will automatically impart specialness to the pictures they take.
Ovo je glavni razlog zbog koga više ne pratim razvoj hardvera… Nekada sam znao napamet sve čipsetove, čipove i ostale zajebancije koje su se pojavljivale na tržištu, upuštao se u rasprave o njima, čitao, gutao, testove…
Čemu sve to?
Hardver napreduje. Brzo. Konstantno. Sve je to lepo.
Ali ljudi se svađaju oko 2% razlike u performansama, kao da će im to doneti duplu produktivnost.
Neće.
Mašine su odavno dovoljno brze. Mnogo brže od čoveka. Mnogo više se može napredovati efikasnijim iskorišćenjem onog hadvera koji neko trenutno poseduje, nego kupovinom novog.
PS
U članku ćete takođe naći jednu od najvećih fotografskih istina ikada zapisanih:
To be honest, most of my pictures suck. The saving grace of that admission is that most of your pictures suck, too. How could I possibly know such a thing? Because most of everybody’s pictures suck, that’s how. I’ve seen Cartier-Bresson’s contact sheets, and most of his pictures sucked. One of my teachers said that it was an epiphany for him when he took a class from Garry Winogrand and learned that most of Winogrand’s exposures sucked. It’s the way it is.
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