[muglo] Re: Camera Zoom

On Apr 27, 2004, at 8:45 PM, Luke Mattar wrote:

> I'm interested -- what do you think any person would be able to do 
> with a 14
> megapixel camera that they couldn't do amply with a Canon Digital 
> Rebel?
> Can you not see my point that what our cameras can actually produce, 
> and
> what people generally use them for, are two totally distinct curves?
>
Your points are well presented and I admit in being in agreement with a 
large part of your argument.  I don't advocate tossing what you have if 
you are satisfied with what you own on the other hand when I owned a 
lle I used Word Star as word processor today it is much easier/faster 
with MS Word and OS X.3.   In the 80s I spent more time working on the 
computer rather than doing work with it.

I have owned digital cameras since early 1997 - Ricoh RDC-2 and I was 
amazed by it's abilities at the time but then 1 megapixel cameras 
became commonly available and I became much less satisfied.  In 2000 I 
bought a Fuji Fine Pix 4700 a 2 megapixel camera and the quality of the 
pictures was good enough to actually print rather than just view on a 
monitor and e-mail.  This January I purchased the Digital Rebel and 
again I find that the improvement in image quality is a large leap 
forward. In the future I see that cameras will use the sensor for zoom 
rather than optics (the dreaded digital zoom), if you have enough 
pixels the quality will be equal or better than what todays best 
cameras produce.  At this time this is only a feature in low end 
cameras because with todays chips you throw out too many pixels to 
still have a decent pictures.  I think there will be many advantages to 
this over traditional zoom mainly in that the lens will be as fast at 
100mm as at 28 mm.  I can see that low light image quality will 
increase with advancements light sensitivity of the sensors.

You state that the capabilities and features of cameras will be beyond 
what the average user will need or use.  This is also true of 
microwaves, VCRs, cars and probably your bicycle and it all boils down 
to marketing.  When VCR clocks had to be manually set a lot of people 
never learned to set the time and put up with this flashing 12:00.  
Many people actually were incapable of programing their
VCR to record a show.  People buy features weather they will ever learn 
to use them or not.

Gerhard



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