Science & Tech Quote by Kim Weston

There’s a sly confidence in admitting you can’t keep up with a machine. Kim Weston isn’t just tossing off a quip about technology; he’s defending a tempo. “Too fast for me” sounds modest, even self-deprecating, but the subtext is a declaration of allegiance to a slower, more deliberate way of seeing - and to the idea that speed isn’t automatically a virtue in photography.

In a digital workflow, the camera can “record that information” instantly: exposure, color, sharpness, metadata, and an endless stream of frames. Weston’s line quietly reframes that abundance as noise. If the apparatus can ingest reality faster than the photographer can meaningfully process it, the act risks becoming clerical: capture first, understand later. His phrasing turns the digital camera into an overeager stenographer, and the photographer into someone who insists on interpretation, not transcription.

Context matters here: Weston comes from a lineage where photographs are made, not grabbed. The Weston name carries the gravity of large-format tradition, darkroom discipline, and a belief that attention is the real medium. In that world, slowness is not nostalgia; it’s a constraint that forces intention. The remark also hints at a cultural anxiety that’s only grown: when tools accelerate, our standards of looking can erode. Weston’s resistance isn’t anti-tech so much as pro-friction - a plea to keep photography tethered to human pace, where a picture has time to become a decision.