Why the art world confuses me

Growing up, this is how I thought artists worked:




And this was _art_:




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The Fabulous Liz Renay in a short moralistic film about having trashy parents and growing up trashy yourself.

This clip doesn't have the preceding scenes of Pamela having an illegitimate baby and the following scenes of her taking LSD with predictable results.

If you're on Facebook you can "become a fan" of "Liz Renay" and see the full film.

This film was released in 1970; as a point of reference, John Waters' _Female Trouble_ came out in 1972.

Another camera maker increases dynamic range

Ricoh follows in Fuji's footsteps.

Thinking about this a bit, the idea of taking two readings from the sensor at different sensitivities and then merging them into an image that has both shadow and highlight detail is a bit primitive. Why not take multiple readings? Why not keep sensor data across the board from the lowest ISO to the highest and use a sophisticated raw converter to meld them? Or in-camera, look for detail in the lightest areas at all ISOs?

It something that film just cannot do, and it's exciting to see the film mindset start to be discarded.