Engineering is a profession. I was told this when I joined Engineering college, back in India, Engineering is much more than a trade. So, the trade part has to be included in Engineering. Its a superset.
They HAVE to teach skills to do stuff (programming, designing ciruits etc) and knowledge why we do the stuff, so we can change it as needed.
Its like being between a tradesman and a Scientist. I would like to quote my Physics teacher - a tailor or carpenter can measure length, only a physicist can measure the length of molecules and distance between the stars.
film had 'lots' of white balance issues. That's why you had film specially formulated for incandescent 'hot' lights. You had tungsten light filters etc. And flourescent lights always produced an eerie GREEN 'cast'. With Digital, you dont have to change filters or film, its just a push of a button away. Pushing the right button is still the hard problem. So this problem remains in a residual form.
we really dont need a flapping mirror, a giant piece of glass - the penta-prism, a focal plane shutter with 16 blades triggered by a spring loaded mechanism etc. This is all obsolete stuff.
and do you need to peer through a small eye-piece to see what you are going to get. Its just so much easier to compose a picture when you look at the picture on a screen rather than look at the 'scene' through the eyepiece. That's why professionals even in the film age used Hasselblad style waist level finders where you look at the image on a matte glass.
The successful high end digital camera of the future will be something like the Sony R1 - a solid, high end lens mated to a very good quality sensor, (and it will cost a good deal of money).
The 'SLR'ness in a digital SLR is completely unnecessary. It is just mechanically flimsy and noisy.
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Engineering is a profession. I was told this when I joined Engineering college, back in India, Engineering is much more than a trade. So, the trade part has to be included in Engineering. Its a superset. They HAVE to teach skills to do stuff (programming, designing ciruits etc) and knowledge why we do the stuff, so we can change it as needed. Its like being between a tradesman and a Scientist. I would like to quote my Physics teacher - a tailor or carpenter can measure length, only a physicist can measure the length of molecules and distance between the stars.
film had 'lots' of white balance issues. That's why you had film specially formulated for incandescent 'hot' lights. You had tungsten light filters etc. And flourescent lights always produced an eerie GREEN 'cast'. With Digital, you dont have to change filters or film, its just a push of a button away. Pushing the right button is still the hard problem. So this problem remains in a residual form.
we really dont need a flapping mirror, a giant piece of glass - the penta-prism, a focal plane shutter with 16 blades triggered by a spring loaded mechanism etc. This is all obsolete stuff. and do you need to peer through a small eye-piece to see what you are going to get. Its just so much easier to compose a picture when you look at the picture on a screen rather than look at the 'scene' through the eyepiece. That's why professionals even in the film age used Hasselblad style waist level finders where you look at the image on a matte glass. The successful high end digital camera of the future will be something like the Sony R1 - a solid, high end lens mated to a very good quality sensor, (and it will cost a good deal of money). The 'SLR'ness in a digital SLR is completely unnecessary. It is just mechanically flimsy and noisy.