As a fledgeling photographer with a 6 megapixel slr of my own, I have to wonder...who would want a gigapixel camera? That Kind of resolution isn't too practical for anything other than being WOW'ed by enormous fine-art prints.
I think the main issue, of course, is hard drive space. How many warehouses of RAID arrays would you need to contain your photo collection?
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I think you've got some stuff mixed up...the crop isn't detrimental to telephoto lenses. A 200mm lens does not become a 125mm lens...it becomes a 320mm! Quite a bonus, if you ask me. But wide angle becomes a pain.
Now that the Digital Rebel is on slashdot, surely firmware hacks are on their way. Heck, it's only a matter of time before someone is running a linux server on it.
But seriously...something that has not been mentioned is the included lens. The digital rebel comes with a specially designed 18-55mm zoom lens. The kit with this lens is $999.
DSLR 101: in most digital slrs, the image sensor is a little smaller than a 35mm negative. So when you use a lens built for a 35mm camera, the focal length is effectively multiplied by 1.6, as the edges of the frame fall outside of the sensor and get cropped. So the included 18-55mm lens is equivalent to your typical 28-90mm zoom lens that comes with film rebels. It is also specially designed for the rebel and won't work on the 10D.
A lot of people may point out that the 10D is better and only few hundred dollars more, but people should remember that the cheapest canon lens that is equivalent to the 18-55 is the 17-40L...at $799. So Digital rebel kit = $999, 10D "kit" = approx. $2299. That's not a small price gap. Of course, if you never shoot wide angle, it doesn't effect you.
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As a fledgeling photographer with a 6 megapixel slr of my own, I have to wonder...who would want a gigapixel camera? That Kind of resolution isn't too practical for anything other than being WOW'ed by enormous fine-art prints. I think the main issue, of course, is hard drive space. How many warehouses of RAID arrays would you need to contain your photo collection? "There are fields, Neo. Vast, endless fields... where photos are not taken...they are STORED"
I think you've got some stuff mixed up...the crop isn't detrimental to telephoto lenses. A 200mm lens does not become a 125mm lens...it becomes a 320mm! Quite a bonus, if you ask me. But wide angle becomes a pain.
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testing...I guess I do.
Now that the Digital Rebel is on slashdot, surely firmware hacks are on their way. Heck, it's only a matter of time before someone is running a linux server on it. But seriously...something that has not been mentioned is the included lens. The digital rebel comes with a specially designed 18-55mm zoom lens. The kit with this lens is $999. DSLR 101: in most digital slrs, the image sensor is a little smaller than a 35mm negative. So when you use a lens built for a 35mm camera, the focal length is effectively multiplied by 1.6, as the edges of the frame fall outside of the sensor and get cropped. So the included 18-55mm lens is equivalent to your typical 28-90mm zoom lens that comes with film rebels. It is also specially designed for the rebel and won't work on the 10D. A lot of people may point out that the 10D is better and only few hundred dollars more, but people should remember that the cheapest canon lens that is equivalent to the 18-55 is the 17-40L...at $799. So Digital rebel kit = $999, 10D "kit" = approx. $2299. That's not a small price gap. Of course, if you never shoot wide angle, it doesn't effect you.
Well, being an aspiring pro-photog, I am a broke college student looking for professional, poster sized prints. Uh-oh.