Obama releases official portrait: first taken with digital camera. Obama fan reveals ignorance.

My well of sarcasm is about tapped out, so I'll just point out that Barack Obama's official portrait has been released, and it's the first to be taken with a digital camera: change.gov/page/-/officialportrait.jpg

That's not really noteworthy in itself, but in case you want to continue to be amazed at just how ignorant Obama's fans are, the post by "SilentPatriot" from which I learned this momentous news (crooksandliars.com/silentpatriot/official-obama-portrait-released) says: "I imagine John McCain's official photographer would have used something similar to this. I kid. I kid."

And, that links to an old-time large format camera for use in studios, the not-so-distant precursor to high-end cameras still in use today to create art photographs, ads, and the like; see this page for a description. In fact, that photo is on the following page:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_format#Photographers_who_have_used_large_format

Doh.

Wed, 01/14/2009 - 21:32 · · Importance: 1