[muglo] Re: Camera Zoom

On 27-Apr-04, at 11:03 PM, Gerhard Kuhn 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?
> 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.

Yeah, some things have definitely gotten much better, much easier.

> [what satisfied before doesn't satisfy today ]
> 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.

Yeah, true!

> 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.

Yeah -- I suppose you could see that the point I was making can extend 
into a lot of other areas.

And sooner or later, it's going to be impossible to find a computer 
that I can hook a USB cable into, or purchase a Compact Flash card any 
more.  There's a lot of planned obsolescence out there as well.  I'm 
not under the illusion that digital SLR's are the last camera we need 
to invent.

> 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.

Totally true.  I guess I was just meaning to point out that a lot of 
the current cameras are sort of at that kind of point of complexity.  I 
wonder if many users will actually feel limited at all by what these 
kind of machines can offer a user.

This is an interesting way of thinking about this stuff.  Computers, as 
you mentioned, have for the most part become more reliable and easier 
to use.  Other kinds of things, like VCRs and so on, seem to get harder 
as time goes on and features are added.  Does it all come back to 
having a great design interface?

--
Luke Mattar
519.641.6768
<http://lukemattarphoto.com>


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