Photographer Arnold Newman  (1918-2006) once said “The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.”.  Has anything really changed since analog cameras evolved into digital ones? Do cameras take better pictures, or do they just take better “quality” pictures because certain tasks, e.g. exposure, have been automated? Digital cameras automatically focus a scene, and do just about everything else necessary to automate the process (except pick the scene). They perform facial recognition, and the newer ones even have types of machine learning that do various things – most likely make the task of photography even “easier”. But what’s the point? Part of the reason for taking a photograph is the experience involved. Playing with the settings, maybe focusing the lens manually – all this gives a better insight in the process of taking a photograph. Otherwise it becomes just another automated phenomena in our lives – which is *ok* for takings snaps on mobile devices I guess… but not on cameras.