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In the thread http://www.stevesforums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7098 titled "Poll: How many digital cameras do you own?" there was the following comment:
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I admit that early on I went through a few cameras before I got to the SLR (including an Agfa Isolette, and a few pocket 110's), but once I got the SLR I stuck with it because it was built well and lasted forever. Will I get to the point that I find a digital camera that I will be happy with now and for the next 20 years? Next one though will be a dSLR, not that there's anything wrong with the Olympus, but I'm just happier with a more traditional camera style. |
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>Will I get to the point that I find a digital camera that I will be >happy with now and for the next 20 years?
I don't think that day will come any time soon. Think about all the things that can be improved on the best DSLR's today. How about the ability to take 10 pictures a second any time you want, with no recovery time. I have no doubt this will come and people will desire it but it will take years. How about a 250 megapixel sensor, so you can take a group photo of 20 people and crop out a single head shot that will print with beautiful quality? It would also be nice to have a highspeed wireless connection so that as I'm taking pictures on a vacation they are being uploaded to a web site in real time. |
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I agree with Mike on the point of a loved slr or Dslr, and I will also get a Dslr as my next camera from my oly5050.
At the same time, the argument of the better and more powerful hardware is valid. The difference is the medium: the slrs of past have been using an upgradable medium (film). The better the film got, the better the results, but all 35mm cameras can take all 35mm film made. Here, the hardware IS the medium. Upgrades take place within the body. Unless someone comes up with a modular system where you can change the inards of the body only (like the boards, HD, mam etc in a PC) upgrades will require new cameras. You may want to follow the news in the HASSELBLAD group; I dont have a link yet, but I saw their new system, that takes a lot of backs, from the kodak to the phase one system. :lol: Interesting... |
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We are at the cutting edge of high powered marketing just as I moved on as CPUs advanced with better graphics memory and so on dg cameras are now approaching market peak with new models at least monthly so it is there and we want,Ido anyway.
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I agree lens technology is likely to improve slower than things like flash memory speed, capacity, and sensor quality.
However keep in mind that the best canon prime lenses can approach 100 lp/mm, which should allow for significantly higher resolution than the 12MP cameras already coming out. Sure this type of glass is not cheap, but high volume production and time have a way of changing that. It's surely not possible today, but I don't want to fall into the same boat as Bill Gates when he said a long time ago that no single user would ever want more than 640k memory ![]() |
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lwhitney is right: maybe the 35mm lens format should not stay with the digital one in the future... |
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I believe a standard when I see one. Hey they can't even agree on a flash card let alone a lens mount. I'm sure Nikon and Canon will agree to this 4/3! ... and redo all their lenses where they have a strong position. Why fight an uphill battle and come up with a new system when they can easily retrofit existing bodies? |
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Billdrew you may be right on the 4/3 system, but when I saw pictures of it the lens seemed at least as lerge as a 35mm.
But if the physical size does matter, how can a nikon 5000 run the same quality as, say an E20 or even a nikon5700? I dont know enough about lens resolution power to detrmine if it is primarily governed by size or manufacture quality, but we'll see i guess. Quote:
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