Scott Smith
TVWBB Pro
A number of years back, photography went through a digital crisis when all of the sudden photographers suddenly realized that most all of their photographs had tiny flaws (inherent to the physics of all lenses) that could be spotted easily if you looked hard enough at the zoomed in images.
This led to a spat of name calling - terms like "chimping" and "pixel peeping". Some photographers became more obsessed with the theoretical quality of their images than with actually taking decent pictures.
In a grilling situation, control of the heat is great, to a point. However, technology seems to be evolving in a direction toward providing increasingly more precise feedback on what our grills are doing. I'm not going to speculate on what is the best level of digital control - that may be different for different folks. I would simply urge everyone to remember that the ultimate goal is to enjoy the food and not necessarily to be more accurate than someone else on your grill temperatures.
This led to a spat of name calling - terms like "chimping" and "pixel peeping". Some photographers became more obsessed with the theoretical quality of their images than with actually taking decent pictures.
In a grilling situation, control of the heat is great, to a point. However, technology seems to be evolving in a direction toward providing increasingly more precise feedback on what our grills are doing. I'm not going to speculate on what is the best level of digital control - that may be different for different folks. I would simply urge everyone to remember that the ultimate goal is to enjoy the food and not necessarily to be more accurate than someone else on your grill temperatures.
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