On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Tom Scales wrote:
|Actually, the new Canon S20 and the new Casio 3000 have higher resolutions.
|They 2500 is around 2mp and the Canon and Casio are 3mp. Olympus announced
|the 2500 replacement, but I don't think any of the three are shipping yet.
I stand corrected.
|> On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Motor Sport Visions Photography wrote:
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|> |CCDs, even the best of them, _do not_ have several times the resolution
|> |of fine grain film...in fact far from it. When they do, there will be no
|> |more use for film (except for esoteric and nostalgic reasons) and we
|> |ain't there yet...
|> |
|> |The devices are indeed little light capturing "buckets" and depending on
|> |imager design, you have either three little buckets next to one another
|> |(for RGB) or you have three seperate imagers (again RGB). While for film
|> |the ideal is to get all colors to land on the same spot of the film
|> |plane (hello Apochromatic lenses), this may not be the case for digital
|> |imaging. I have a feeling Olympus digital design people may actually be
|> |on to something here. Ideally you want the red bucket to get mostly red,
|> |green mostly green, and well...you get the drift.
|> |
|> |Yes, there are pro bodies from Kodak, N*k*n and C*n*n that accept std.
|> |SLR lenses. Was this for best performance or was this to get a leg-up in
|> |the professional marketplace at a compramise of performance? I would
|> |suggest the later.
|> |
|> |I wonder if Olympus is making the right marketing strategy on this (as
|> |in I too am not convinced they couldn't do this and make it work). It is
|> |important to note that in the high end consumer/semi-pro digital camera
|> |market that Olympus is generally regarded as the best. (Take a look at
|> |images from a C2000 or C2500 and compare them with a Coolpix 950 for
|> |example...)
|> |
|> |Doesn't sound like Marketing double-talk to me...sounds more like
|> |Engineering winning the battle of when to come to market against
|> |Marketing. That's my take on it anyway...
|>
|> At the current time, the C2500 is the resolution king of the semi-pro
|> digital camera market. If the above is true, Olympus would have to
|> design a new digital lens line after all, a financially daunting
|> proposition. They would have to survey the digital market as
|> technology improves and the pro market begins to bend toward digital
|> cameras. Then they would have to start generating their digital lens
|> line at a fast & furious rate in an effort to take the market away
|> from Nikon, Canon & Company.
|>
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