By dropping the sensor resolution way down and ditching the bells and whistles you wouldn't find in similarly priced compacts either, they're looking at launching the first sub $500 DSLR.
See, I don't get this at all. The cheapest lenses you can get for a DSLR these days cost about $100 - most companies' 50 1.8s and kit lenses. The decent zooms... $300; good primes... $300-400; high quality glass... $800+. What I'm wondering is this: if you're too poor/cheap to lay out $700 for a body, what the hell are you going to put on your camera anyway?
The thing about Canon and Apple is they have similar fanboy communities.
You misspelled Nikon up there, bud. Canon is the big bad wolf of the DSLR game, outselling Nikon more than 2:1 and totally owning the high-margin markets made up of sports and wildlife pros. Canon is the mass market, mass appeal brand out there right now, Nikon is the little engine that (sometimes) could.
No, we sure as bloody hell don't. So the real question is - what the **** is YOUR police force doing in MY country?! Who gave them the authority to arrest anyone on Polish soil?!
The FBI has an office in Warsaw and they work with the polish police and the CB all the time. I know a guy who got a binder prepared by the FBI during the discovery period of his CC fraud case in the mid 90s.
The Internet is pretty much a consequences-free zone.
Only in some ways. For example, it allows you to talk out your ass with an air of authority.
As much as you'd like to think the laws in Europe and the US differer oh so much, they don't. Stealing is stealing, and it's pretty much illegal everywhere in the world that has running water. I don't know about Romania, but in Poland you can and will do time for CC fraud, bank fraud and income tax evasion. With our strict personal data laws, you can get time for selling/distributing people's non-private data (PESEL/NIP [our SSN equivs], address, name) without their permission.
Why am I writing this with such an air of self righteousness and authority? Let's just say I remember my friends' 'got out of jail' parties really well.
What's amazing is that in 20-30 years, it wouldn't be unreasonable to believe that consumer cameras would be capable of taking the same picture at the same 13 gigapixel resolution, and still have enough room left over to store 1000 similar pictures.
Heh, don't I wish. But unless we reinvent optics as we understand them right now, it's not going to happen. 16-22mpx out of a normal 35mm sensor is a limit for *lenses*, with maybe some of the best of breeds being useful at 30mpx, but not more. A lot of really smart people are saying that the megapixel war is going to seriously slow down (especially in pro cams, it's still going to be a selling point in consumer cameras). The consumer DSLR bodies are already surpassing the abilities of consumer lenses as it is right now. Look for cameras with better dynamic range and high iso quality.
5. Con: One button mouse included. Thank god for Logitech
I've actually come to understand and accept this - apple is forcing its developers to make every app workable with a single mouse button. Anybody who cares enough will go out and get a $10 logitech oem mouse, but that's not the point, they're forcing simplicity on their developers... I love it.
6. Con: Lack of open source software
You've got to be kidding. The only piece of commercial software I have on my Powerbook is the CS2 suite. Everything else is either open source or free.
8. Con: iTunes lock-in
This one is just... huh? There are more audio players for OS X than just iTunes, it's just the most popular one.. and let's not kid ourselves, iTunes is a LOT better than Windows Media Player or whatever MS is packaging with windows these days.
People who can't figure out that other countries write dates in a different (LOGICAL) way shouldn't be allowed in banks, not to mention being allowed to work in them.
Also, ATRAC/ATRAC3 wasn't really an open standard (there is a reason the MP3 took off and ATRAC/ATRAC3 didn't.)
More specifically, ATARAC/3 failed miserably because Sony flat out wouldn't let you copy music to the NetMD at the highest quality - only they had the codec to do that, and only bought music was encoded in that fashion. It was great technology (decent codec; great, cheap removable media) that failed for political reasons.
That said, I'm not shedding a tear over Sony getting their asses kicked in this, or any other, market.
I'm a gas price shopper, over here in europe. You better believe that if it takes me an extra 1-2km to save 40cents (US) on a galon of gas, I'm gonna make that drive.
I think problems like this arise because police in the US are much too often simply incompetent persons, what the Chinese traditionally call 'insignificant persons'.
I think the real problem is that a cop in China, Denmark and the UK understands that the statistical chance of the person they are stopping being armed with a firearm is close to nil, while in the US it is a non-insignificant number. I used to watch those cop shows and see american cops totally overreacting during traffic stops, then I saw a couple where cops were gunned down during such stops. If your job involved the quite real posibility of getting killed by any of the people you came into contact with, you would probably be freaking out as well.
I know the Canon line-up pretty well, they have three 8mpx DSLRs - 350D (Rebel XT); 20D (discontinued); 30D - and all of them have USB 2.0, none of them does more than 5fps. The last camera I can think of that might not have had USB 2.0 was the 1Ds or 1Ds MkII - it had firewire instead.
I really don't know what people expect. I've traveled all over the EU this year and I didn't meet a single 'jovial' security guard. That said, I didn't meet anybody who was rude or mean, everybody was just... professional.
Hungary, the Czech Republic and SLOVAKIA (Slovenia doesn't border with Austria) are all in the EU, but are not part of the Schengen accords, which allow for document-less travel between countries.
Sure there are a lot of well behaved americans, who even if they don't speak the local language, behave well, use the international language of pointing when they can't communicate and generally act like normal people. And that's great. The thing is, they're unnoticed (which, for locals in high-tourist areas, is pretty great too)
But for every group of quiet, backpacking americans there's a group of american senior citizens dressed in identical hot pink polo shirts making a b-line across one of europe's many old towns.
As someone who grew up in the 80s, all I can pretty much say is this: the best thing that ever happened was that they ended. Born in Poland, growing up in America, I went through martial law, reganomics, the horrible music/fashion/movies of that time. Even cartoons were crap - the 80s WB and HB cartoons were awful, just look at Tom and Jerry... appaling.
As far as movies go, we can use IMDB to look back. At the 1982 Oscars (celebrating the movies of 1981) we see: best movie - Chariots of Fire. When's the last time you watched that classic? A year later, Ghandi beat out ET... Yeah, anyway, it was pretty crap. And let's not kid ourselves, my friend's 10 year old daughter is going to be bitching about games in 2016 sucking, not like the Harry Potter third-person adventure game she used to play.
I think the more likely scenario is that in the US, you will have really fast service for a small fee and in parts of Europe, you'll have a slow connection provided by the government that has problems and is perpetually in great need of an upgrade.
Yeah, because this is what's happening now... oh wait, it's not.
What percentage of your salary would a new car be? (Something modest and reasonable) Oh, you can't afford it on this pay? Well, it must be too expensive then.
The average annual salary in Poland is about $8400, the average price of a new car is $19,500. It is too expensive, and it's why used car imports exceed new car sales by 300%.
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Except that the stats in the PDF only go back to the late 70s (or was that early 80s).
In that time period, the in-office fatality rate for POTUS has been 0.
Didn't two shuttles blow up in the past 20-some years?
By dropping the sensor resolution way down and ditching the bells and whistles you wouldn't find in similarly priced compacts either, they're looking at launching the first sub $500 DSLR.
See, I don't get this at all. The cheapest lenses you can get for a DSLR these days cost about $100 - most companies' 50 1.8s and kit lenses. The decent zooms... $300; good primes... $300-400; high quality glass... $800+. What I'm wondering is this: if you're too poor/cheap to lay out $700 for a body, what the hell are you going to put on your camera anyway?
Or you can just shoot an image, look at the histogram, adjust and shoot again...
The thing about Canon and Apple is they have similar fanboy communities.
You misspelled Nikon up there, bud. Canon is the big bad wolf of the DSLR game, outselling Nikon more than 2:1 and totally owning the high-margin markets made up of sports and wildlife pros. Canon is the mass market, mass appeal brand out there right now, Nikon is the little engine that (sometimes) could.
No, we sure as bloody hell don't. So the real question is - what the **** is YOUR police force doing in MY country?! Who gave them the authority to arrest anyone on Polish soil?!
The FBI has an office in Warsaw and they work with the polish police and the CB all the time. I know a guy who got a binder prepared by the FBI during the discovery period of his CC fraud case in the mid 90s.
Tak w ogole, to niezla reakcja... niezle z dupy.
The Internet is pretty much a consequences-free zone.
Only in some ways. For example, it allows you to talk out your ass with an air of authority.
As much as you'd like to think the laws in Europe and the US differer oh so much, they don't. Stealing is stealing, and it's pretty much illegal everywhere in the world that has running water. I don't know about Romania, but in Poland you can and will do time for CC fraud, bank fraud and income tax evasion. With our strict personal data laws, you can get time for selling/distributing people's non-private data (PESEL/NIP [our SSN equivs], address, name) without their permission.
Why am I writing this with such an air of self righteousness and authority? Let's just say I remember my friends' 'got out of jail' parties really well.
I'm guessing based on the consumer cameras sold over the past 40 years - they've gone down in size, not up.
What's amazing is that in 20-30 years, it wouldn't be unreasonable to believe that consumer cameras would be capable of taking the same picture at the same 13 gigapixel resolution, and still have enough room left over to store 1000 similar pictures.
Heh, don't I wish. But unless we reinvent optics as we understand them right now, it's not going to happen. 16-22mpx out of a normal 35mm sensor is a limit for *lenses*, with maybe some of the best of breeds being useful at 30mpx, but not more. A lot of really smart people are saying that the megapixel war is going to seriously slow down (especially in pro cams, it's still going to be a selling point in consumer cameras). The consumer DSLR bodies are already surpassing the abilities of consumer lenses as it is right now. Look for cameras with better dynamic range and high iso quality.
Yeah, these guys aren't a major company at all...
Or you just use VLC and... watch the movies anyway.
5. Con: One button mouse included. Thank god for Logitech
I've actually come to understand and accept this - apple is forcing its developers to make every app workable with a single mouse button. Anybody who cares enough will go out and get a $10 logitech oem mouse, but that's not the point, they're forcing simplicity on their developers... I love it.
6. Con: Lack of open source software
You've got to be kidding. The only piece of commercial software I have on my Powerbook is the CS2 suite. Everything else is either open source or free.
8. Con: iTunes lock-in
This one is just... huh? There are more audio players for OS X than just iTunes, it's just the most popular one.. and let's not kid ourselves, iTunes is a LOT better than Windows Media Player or whatever MS is packaging with windows these days.
People who can't figure out that other countries write dates in a different (LOGICAL) way shouldn't be allowed in banks, not to mention being allowed to work in them.
Also, ATRAC/ATRAC3 wasn't really an open standard (there is a reason the MP3 took off and ATRAC/ATRAC3 didn't.)
More specifically, ATARAC/3 failed miserably because Sony flat out wouldn't let you copy music to the NetMD at the highest quality - only they had the codec to do that, and only bought music was encoded in that fashion. It was great technology (decent codec; great, cheap removable media) that failed for political reasons.
That said, I'm not shedding a tear over Sony getting their asses kicked in this, or any other, market.
Look at all the trouble Apple went through to make getting songs off the iPod and onto a 'new' system impossible.
You mean putting a 'hidden' bit on the subdirectories with the music itself. Yeah... I 'cracked' that with Windows Explorer in a second the other day.
I'm a gas price shopper, over here in europe. You better believe that if it takes me an extra 1-2km to save 40cents (US) on a galon of gas, I'm gonna make that drive.
I think problems like this arise because police in the US are much too often simply incompetent persons, what the Chinese traditionally call 'insignificant persons'.
I think the real problem is that a cop in China, Denmark and the UK understands that the statistical chance of the person they are stopping being armed with a firearm is close to nil, while in the US it is a non-insignificant number. I used to watch those cop shows and see american cops totally overreacting during traffic stops, then I saw a couple where cops were gunned down during such stops. If your job involved the quite real posibility of getting killed by any of the people you came into contact with, you would probably be freaking out as well.
I know the Canon line-up pretty well, they have three 8mpx DSLRs - 350D (Rebel XT); 20D (discontinued); 30D - and all of them have USB 2.0, none of them does more than 5fps. The last camera I can think of that might not have had USB 2.0 was the 1Ds or 1Ds MkII - it had firewire instead.
I really don't know what people expect. I've traveled all over the EU this year and I didn't meet a single 'jovial' security guard. That said, I didn't meet anybody who was rude or mean, everybody was just... professional.
Hungary, the Czech Republic and SLOVAKIA (Slovenia doesn't border with Austria) are all in the EU, but are not part of the Schengen accords, which allow for document-less travel between countries.
Sure there are a lot of well behaved americans, who even if they don't speak the local language, behave well, use the international language of pointing when they can't communicate and generally act like normal people. And that's great. The thing is, they're unnoticed (which, for locals in high-tourist areas, is pretty great too)
But for every group of quiet, backpacking americans there's a group of american senior citizens dressed in identical hot pink polo shirts making a b-line across one of europe's many old towns.
The European equivalent of Cancun is actually Ibiza.
As someone who grew up in the 80s, all I can pretty much say is this: the best thing that ever happened was that they ended. Born in Poland, growing up in America, I went through martial law, reganomics, the horrible music/fashion/movies of that time. Even cartoons were crap - the 80s WB and HB cartoons were awful, just look at Tom and Jerry... appaling.
As far as movies go, we can use IMDB to look back. At the 1982 Oscars (celebrating the movies of 1981) we see: best movie - Chariots of Fire. When's the last time you watched that classic? A year later, Ghandi beat out ET... Yeah, anyway, it was pretty crap. And let's not kid ourselves, my friend's 10 year old daughter is going to be bitching about games in 2016 sucking, not like the Harry Potter third-person adventure game she used to play.
I think the more likely scenario is that in the US, you will have really fast service for a small fee and in parts of Europe, you'll have a slow connection provided by the government that has problems and is perpetually in great need of an upgrade.
Yeah, because this is what's happening now... oh wait, it's not.
What percentage of your salary would a new car be? (Something modest and reasonable) Oh, you can't afford it on this pay? Well, it must be too expensive then.
The average annual salary in Poland is about $8400, the average price of a new car is $19,500. It is too expensive, and it's why used car imports exceed new car sales by 300%.