Good recommendation on the website! On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:03 PM, chad evans wyatt <cewyattph...@yahoo.com>wrote:
> Steve, you are entirely right, and it is quite depressing to me how very > many cameras have been sold on the basis of augmented megapixels. The > sensor is key, and its size truly determines quality of image. Those of us > who formerly were dedicated to excellence in the film era have wandered in a > ten-year nightmare of mediocrity until now, only today can avail ourselves > of cameras reasonably priced that come close to the "real raw" that Ken > Rockwell http://www.kenrockwell.com/ describes as the capability of even > 35mm. Set aside the former standards of rollfilm and 4x5, which, in the > 1950's, were the province of ordinary press coverage. Truly depressing to > see media and cultural acceptance today of the pedestrian. > > Interesting that Kodak, thought moribund, now produces the very best > sensors anywhere, and that the new Leica M9 takes advantage of those, as do > NASA probes, shunting the utterly sophomoric/complex entries of both Nikon > and Canon sideways. > > One hopes that not long from now, the curses of shutter-lag, low dynamic > range, inadequate color management will once again be overcome in cameras > affordable and decipherable to all, both amateur and professional. > > That this is slightly off-topic, but a good chance to air some views, I > apologise. Thank you. > > > > --- On Mon, 10/19/09, phartz...@gmail.com <phartz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: phartz...@gmail.com <phartz...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [CGUYS] android takes on iphone > To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM > Date: Monday, October 19, 2009, 9:38 AM > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:33 AM, mike <xha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Not sure what your point is..no one knows what size the image sensor it > has, > > let alone as you say the quality...but you are still dismissing it? > > Not dismissing it. I do, however, dismiss the megapixel wars as if > that is the sole criteria by which to judge the capability of cameras. > > Steve > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > > > > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
