higher image quality trump all for me not solely because higher final image quality is always needed, but because of other things you can do like crop more while maintaining same final image quality. To me, cropping ability is very powerful because it allows you to capture much quicker and easier, and fine tune the composition to perfection in post processing. All else being equal, you could lop off half a FF image and still end up just as nice I.Q. as an uncropped APS image.
-- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Home Page - www.jchriso.com Join the Audio CD PLAYER DISCUSSION list - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Graydon Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 1:45 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Sony Releases A850 FF Camera for $2,000 On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 01:24:27PM -0400, J.C. O'Connell scripsit: > I think maybe your overlooking the fact that APS SLRs are really > retrofits of FF slrs and use the same size lens mounts, registration > etc as FF cameras. [snip] Which is a very good thing for in-body anti-shake systems. Also a good thing for battery life; that nice large battery compartment and half the sensor size is about root 2 of the power requirements. This is always going to help. > For me, Image quaity trumps all. [snip] Just before Hitler's War started, somebody asked asked the fellow running the Cunard line what it was like to have the largest, fastest liners in service in the world. His reply was that they were the smallest, slowest ships that would do the job he needed them to do. Theoretical image quality does me no good; the best image quality I can _use_ is the best image quality I can print, and that's constrained by the printer and will be for quite a while, and even if it wasn't, there's some decent evidence that people just can't _see_ better than 600 dpi or so. Never mind how much stuff is being done for the web, or the trajectory of increase for content actively displayed; the effective image quality limit is in the printer tech, not the camera tech. So long as that's true, the requirement is for a camera that *keeps* that true, not for the best theoretically achievable IQ. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
