That is the way it works. It is what allows Union Carbide to have an environmental policy, AOL to have a privacy policy, VA Linux to have a mission statement. They wrote it, they get to manipulate its meaning to fit the situation at hand.
I'd have little or no objection to them if all they did was lobby, straight up and honestly.
Excellent pun!
I can just picture some lobbyist showing up at Ted Kennedy's office with a plate of freshly baked cookies and a crayon drawn thank you card from the kids at the orphanage. My sides are splitting!
Actually the problem is that nearly all DSLRs produce soft photos straight out of the camera, even with good lenses. With out of the box settings the photos from my P&S Fuji S5200 are sharper than my 30D with L glass attached. Even if I max out the 30D's sharpening they aren't all that much better.
The same is true for color saturation.
And that is if I shoot in JPG instead of RAW.
The image data processing in most P&S cameras is geared toward people who take their memory cards straight from the camera to the printer. They apply a lot of in camera sharpening and usually oversatuate color. In camera processing in a DSLR, at least Nikons and Canons, is geared toward leaving some room for more capable PC based lab work.
Of course, anyone shooting with a $200 zoom probably isn't all that critical of image quality. Not that that is bad, the camera is just capable of much more.
The word you missed was 'relatively'. Relative to the entire digital camera market the D50 is high end.
Relatively speaking a 1D is 'low end' compared with a Hasselblad H2D-39, or a Leica with a Summicron, or the camera that takes the photos on Google Maps....
The Fuji S5000 and its successors are astoundingly good point & shoots for their price. Full manual controls, good high ISO performance, excellent metering, SLR style body, image quality better than P&Ss costing twice as much.
This list shows the Digital Rebel XT and the 350D, respectively American and European model designations for the same camera. The Digital Rebel (no. 10 on the list) is actually a 300D.
I'm just amazed to see so many digital SLRs on the list. These things aren't cheap, and they typically require some minor knowledge of a) photography in general, and b) digital post processing, to get decent pictures out of.
Of course you are aware that businesses can't internalize costs in the manner you refer to, in the same way that they don't pay taxes. Their entire revenue stream comes from their customers, so any increase in their cost of doing business, whether it is paying a government invoked penalty or paying more for a gallon of gasoline, ends up being reflected in the price of their goods or services.
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It would be cheaper for them to just buy out one of your friends. I am sure they would turn for much less than any elected official.
That is the way it works. It is what allows Union Carbide to have an environmental policy, AOL to have a privacy policy, VA Linux to have a mission statement. They wrote it, they get to manipulate its meaning to fit the situation at hand.
Excellent pun!
I can just picture some lobbyist showing up at Ted Kennedy's office with a plate of freshly baked cookies and a crayon drawn thank you card from the kids at the orphanage. My sides are splitting!
What would be the point of hiring a company who's only service appears to be astroturfing to do something other than astroturfing?
Actually the problem is that nearly all DSLRs produce soft photos straight out of the camera, even with good lenses. With out of the box settings the photos from my P&S Fuji S5200 are sharper than my 30D with L glass attached. Even if I max out the 30D's sharpening they aren't all that much better. The same is true for color saturation. And that is if I shoot in JPG instead of RAW. The image data processing in most P&S cameras is geared toward people who take their memory cards straight from the camera to the printer. They apply a lot of in camera sharpening and usually oversatuate color. In camera processing in a DSLR, at least Nikons and Canons, is geared toward leaving some room for more capable PC based lab work. Of course, anyone shooting with a $200 zoom probably isn't all that critical of image quality. Not that that is bad, the camera is just capable of much more.
The word you missed was 'relatively'. Relative to the entire digital camera market the D50 is high end. Relatively speaking a 1D is 'low end' compared with a Hasselblad H2D-39, or a Leica with a Summicron, or the camera that takes the photos on Google Maps....
The Fuji S5000 and its successors are astoundingly good point & shoots for their price. Full manual controls, good high ISO performance, excellent metering, SLR style body, image quality better than P&Ss costing twice as much.
This list shows the Digital Rebel XT and the 350D, respectively American and European model designations for the same camera. The Digital Rebel (no. 10 on the list) is actually a 300D.
I'm just amazed to see so many digital SLRs on the list. These things aren't cheap, and they typically require some minor knowledge of a) photography in general, and b) digital post processing, to get decent pictures out of.
Funny...the captcha for this post is 'sharpen'.
Of course you are aware that businesses can't internalize costs in the manner you refer to, in the same way that they don't pay taxes. Their entire revenue stream comes from their customers, so any increase in their cost of doing business, whether it is paying a government invoked penalty or paying more for a gallon of gasoline, ends up being reflected in the price of their goods or services.