View Full Version : Lumix G2 television ad ... mocks real photography!
Pretty well sums up where photography is going ... or where they would like it to go! ... :p link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPhoaOpOq_k)
petronius
08-19-2010, 22:38
Sounds like: "You press the button, we do the rest!"
Iīm really pi**ed that the G2 still canīt make sandwiches;-)
Jamie123
08-19-2010, 23:16
To be fair, most ''real'' photographers would probably give similar answers to stupid questions like ''what f-stop did you use?'' or ''what shutterspeed did you use?''.
Pherdinand
08-20-2010, 00:21
pretty boring shots. :D
pretty boring shots. :D
Well ... they are digital! :angel:
:D
wgerrard
08-20-2010, 07:35
Occasionally, a friend or family member will ask how these cameras I use work. Invariably, they fathom the simple things, like bigger lens opening lets in more light, faster shutter speed tends to freeze movement, etc. But, as soon as I start talking about anything more specific -- setting aperture, depth of field (how did you make the background all fuzzy?), and all that -- eyes glaze over and they nod off. Explaining an f-stop is painful. :)
These are the people who need cameras that do everything but make toast. And more power to them.
back alley
08-20-2010, 07:39
very well, thank you...i love the accents!
Nikon Bob
08-20-2010, 07:46
Just another take on the old gear doesn't matter I am an artist routine. Those arguments go on forever around here. The guy in the ad reminds me of my wife taking photos.
Bob
jsrockit
08-20-2010, 09:32
Well, Panasonic is a business that isn't catering to the RFF type or the professional. The real money is in the casual consumer market... so, their ad is played right IMHO. I don't look at like a mockery of photography... I think it is just being honest to what most consumers want i.e. great quality without spending time learning manual shutter speeds and apertures. The guy playing the part is that consumer who just happened to make some "good" photos because his camera handled exposures. While there is more to photography than shutter speeds and apertures, most people don't care about photography... they care about memories.
back alley
08-20-2010, 09:52
..they care about memories...
thank you mr. eastman.
;)
I think it mocks digital photographers.
back alley
08-20-2010, 09:55
I think it mocks digital photographers.
or aussies...
I thought that the depiction of the wine-sipping gallery-goers was pretty funny. I don't think that it mocks photographers.
jsrockit
08-20-2010, 10:29
It's more like the guy used their camera, made "good" photos, and fooled everyone into thinking he was a "real" photographer...even though he didn't know what real photographers know about exposure. Kind of a services the purpose for their auto everything mode they were selling. If anything, it was giving real photographers their props.
I like the guy's answers!
very well, thank you...i love the accents!
What accents? :)
I like his answers, esp "pretty quick" for shutter speed mixed with his fingers sound.
Dan.
I think it mocks photography, as an art form.
But that's ok. I like mockery.
or aussies...
Even Austrians ... :D
Sometimes, after a pint (or 6) of good ale, I still want to take nice photographs. This is the camera I need!
shadowfox
08-20-2010, 14:53
That's hilarious!
I think the joke is on the "intellectual" crowd :)
I like the guy's answers.
In my occasional gallery shoots I quite often bump into these types of patrons.
Literally sometimes ... because they won't get out of my way! :p
If Homer (beer boobies and pizza) was a photographer he'd need this camera! :)
John Robertson
08-20-2010, 15:11
Looks like my local camera club nowadays, thats why I left. Full of pretentious self publicists, sorry "artists"
I did not percieve this as a mockery of photography as well, if then it is a mockery of the pictured audience.
At least Panasonic does not make a secret about the camera's target group. EP-2's seem to be already quite fashionable in that segment.
He even knows how to 'speak woman': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RqrdRqAr1Q
The funniest ad I've seen in this country was this ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdN3PDeErvw
And I agree ... I should have said mocking the pretentious patrons! :D
Keith, I liked the advert, but I thought that Toohey's in it's various forms was mediocre beer (spent last week in Sydney and Katoomba); a well made beer, but essentially flavorless, like American Budweiser. I quite liked the products from James Squires, Ltd., though, especially the amber ale.
f6andBthere
08-20-2010, 19:42
Keith, I liked the advert, but I thought that Toohey's in it's various forms was mediocre beer (spent last week in Sydney and Katoomba); a well made beer, but essentially flavorless, like American Budweiser. I quite liked the products from James Squires, Ltd., though, especially the amber ale.
I agree with that sentiment. I've never been able to work out what people see in Tooheys, my question is how do they get the cats to sit over the bottles? :angel:
Keith, very cool ad.
That guy is great - spot on answers to a strange crowd.
He could as well have taken the shots with any camera and shown up with an iPhone.
My favorite answer also is "pretty quick".
I thought it was sort of a post-modern naivety thing ... in a slightly knowing retro way that is obviously ...
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