imagemaker46
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Here's what I think... Even IF CG completely, totally replaces photographic images someday, it will still be done with a camera-like device that captures the real scene with the real people and things in it and the expressions and all the rest, and then renders it.Again, I'm thinking way, way, way in the future. Like something You or I will never see. Maybe my son won't see. Yes it is complete fiction, now.
Such a device will have to be at least a 3D capture device for the computer program to work out depth issues in the rendering, but if you want to be able to spin the whole scene around and see it from any angle, as true CG is, then it will need to instantly capture that scene from at least 3 points of view surrounding the scene - no easy thing on the spur of the moment, unless such devices are just EVERYWHERE, ready to capture ALL THE TIME.
Perhaps I just lack vision, but I cannot see any way of making such a device practical for everyday use in capturing the kinds of real life events I've been talking about CG being unable to deal with effectively. It's just not enough for me to buy into it based on some vague idea that someday it will take over photography completely, without any real thought apparently given to "how" it possibly can overcome some very basic physics problems in order to do so.
YMMV
A practical everyday device like a digital camera 15 years ago, or a computer 25 years ago.