Boris, You better start thinking about markets for your product. The best ideas for new products come from the customers. Listen to how they use your products and design the next generation. Don't leave all the fun to the Industrial Designers, blah! :-b Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/18/2012 20:13, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> >> I believe that the engineer with a new toy is always thinking 'How >> could I sell a million of these?' > > > I'm an engineer and I don't think like this, Bob. Instead I let to think so > the marketing people in my company. Also the problem (in my eyes at least) > here is that in terms of pixels there is only so much you can do with them. > Few things come to mind - so if you have oh so many pixels you can: > > * crop them as you see fit and still get a decent picture > * print really big enlargements > * if you do virtual 3D, your worlds will be more zoomable in, in a manner of > speaking > > That's about it. So the comparison with what Bill Gates said about PC RAM > that someone here made looks invalid to me. PC RAM in particular and PC in > general can do so much more so that adding RAM enables you to do great many > various things. "Various" being the keyword here. As for pixels I am not so > sure. > > Although I know that you're a car enthusiast, Bob, I still think that cars > can be a valid analogy. If you live in NYC or Chicago or Tel Aviv for that > matter, do you really absolutely certainly need the likes of modern sports > cars? Is acceleration from 0 to 60 MPH in 5 sec going to be a decisive > factor for you vs the car that does so in 10 sec. In theory it may serve you > well if you need to accelerate to escape a predicament on the road (*). But > in the big city such a situation is possibly improbable anyway. The smaller, > more frugal or less polluting engine is an entirely different story, and > even more so in the big cities... > > So MP count has to serve a purpose. And although in certain cases it does > serve a purpose, it is unlikely to serve such a purpose for everyone > uniformly. Hence I believe that there has to be "enough" pixels for 99% of > the people out there, and 24 MP on APS-C sensor is just too many of them, > little pesky pixels... > > Boris > > (*) It may be argued that if you get into such a situation or get close to > it every now and then, you better not to drive at all or drive a slow car so > as to force you to less aggressive driving. > > > > -- > 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.
