AI Autofocus, Complex Menus, and Electronic Finders are Ruining The Photography Experience
June 2025, Carl Garrard
"Wall Street took a good idea, Lewis Ranieri's Mortgage bond, and turned it into an atomic bomb of fraud and stupidity" The Big Short (2015). And that's pretty much how I feel about camera companies and what they have and are turning the camera industry into. The title doesn't even say it all either. And although many were quite resistant to my honest observations about mirrorless 5-7 years ago, today more and more still photographers are speaking up and agreeing with me (silently or otherwise). Camera companies don't want us to speak up either, they want to sell cameras and lenses and accessories and have everyone accept what they offer without complaint. Of course they do! And instead of telling them our thoughts en masse, there is a silent revolution against them going on
right now.
