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Canon makes digital cameras that pack 22 million pixels into each shot. Our computers today are pure magic compared to a mere 10 years ago. Everyone and everything is instantly and effortlessly connected in a high technology web of staggering complexity.

So why is it that masters do such amazing things with such primitive technology?

Andrei Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker who died in 1986. The pinnacle of camera technology at the time he died was the Canon F-1.

Someone gave him a Polaroid camera, and he used it often. To make Art.