On Sep 13, 2011, at 8:13 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > The fact that some people desperately need/want higher sensitivity > cameras to achieve the photographs they want to make is not in > question. > > The statement I made is that "the *obsession* with ultra-high > sensitivity as single point of focus for whether a camera is good or > bad is ridiculous". I stand by that opinion, and have yet to see a > convincing fact or counter opinion to indicate that it is in error. It > is an obsession just like the obsessions with stratospheric pixel > resolution, fueled by stupid marketing in the "bigger is always > better" idiom also used to sell cars, motorcycles, and other consumer > goods by marketeers.
You have answered your own question. It is vitally important to some people. For the rest, the vast unwashed masses like to have a simple scalar number by which to rate something, vectors are too hard for them. If I were snarky, I'd say that people go into marketing because they aren't smart enough to be engineers and actually design things, so they sell them. But, I honestly don't know whether marketing people are that stupid, or they just maximize the bang for their marketing buck by taking to heart "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public". -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
