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Beyond Megapixels
TheTechLounge points to this "first of a three-part series of editorial articles examining current digital photography hardware, as well as the author's views of what is to come." It boils down to the excellent point that pixel count alone is not the way to evaluate digital camera capabilities.
Gigapixels!
...about an article that stated the obvious.
Although this series of articles may yet become meaningful and/or useful, Part I was not.
You should have sent CowboyNeal an ultra megapixel camera.
As am an amature photographer.
It's the lens, lens, lens!
WhatMeWorry
There are lots of different technologies from different companies and more megapixels don't always mean better quality. All you really have to do is look at some samples of various cameras to figure that out. I thought this was something that everyone knew. Or at least the people who know what it means to buy a 17" CRT with (15.1" viewable area) or a 120GB harddrive that is actually 114.6 when formated, guess people around here aren't that smart.
Here is a reason why MP are obviously not the only parameter of interest - I say "hey I invented a 100 Gigapixel camera! Its great. Most of the pixels are broken though."
People are made to belive that the ISO 400 is better than ISO 100. Thanks to Kodak and other film companies. I know few who take pictures with their digicam in ISO 400 and complain about the quality of their camera.
Exactly what I use now... a low end laptop, with a reasonable good screen and wireless card.(Toshiba tecra and a linksys card) I use it to generally check mail and view the web, and a little bit of coding. If I need the horsepower, I remote into my main system and use it(windows XP using RDP or just forward an X connection throu ssh).
I generaly use my laptop to get images of my camera's because it's easier to work with wherever I want, and move them to the main system for editing later.
I'm currently looking to pick up an Canon A80, but with some of the comments here, and in the article, I may re-consider the DSLR's out there... hmmm.
Anyway...
On Arrakis: early worm gets the bird. Magister mundi sum!
Ah yes, but even if I am taking random pictures, my current camera is getting old and the pictures are losing their focus(not a dirty lens either), the flash has never really worked and the features are few. The A80 has a number of features of the better cameras, but is not a true DSLR, so I can continue with my habits, but learn more about photography as I go. I like photography, I never claimed to be good at it.
As for the basics of SLR user, I use one on a random basis, and know most of what I'm doing(not everything, but definatly the basics).
Anyway...
On Arrakis: early worm gets the bird. Magister mundi sum!