This is a video about technology.

Now there's not actually anything wrong with your screen right now.

You're actually watching this video in 4K,

but I am recording it on a camera that came out in 2004

that was only capable of doing standard definition video.

We have come a long way in the last 12 years, but what I'm wondering is what has this done to us

creatively? This is a box camera. It is an Anscob B2 cadet. It was made in the 1930s and these were

primarily designed to sell to families because households really didn't own cameras in those days and people

like Kodak and Ansko wanted to sell films.

So basically this camera is literally designed with no frills.

Somebody can just pick it up, push the shutter button, wind the film, and they've taken an image.

And that was the whole purpose behind this cameras to make something dead simple to use.

What's interesting is when you contrast something like this with modern day cameras where we have a million conveniences

ISO performance you can practically shoot in the dark with some cameras now

When you look at autofocus performance, I'm using autofocus right now to

film a video because it will track in real time and stay pretty accurate. You look at things like

burst rate. For instance, the Rx 100 Mark 5 that Sony is about to release will shoot 24

frames a second. So essentially you can spray and prey at the same speed a

film is made at and then go grab a high-rest still in the end when you're done.

They will do practically anything and the level of automation is very fascinating.

I think as a result though because they can do anything that as photographers were really not

forced to think very much for ourselves and I think this is what becomes a little bit

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