Off your feed, Chris?
Have you tried any DSLRs? True they can be used as automatic point and
shoots and with the plastic of many of them they could qualify for the
"wunderbrick" epithet. They are dependent on batteries, but most are
rechargeable. However, they are not necessarily slow, clumsy, or
limited photographically. Much of the image discussion is a result of
attention focussed there because it is a new process. No one would
pretend that film images taken with ultrawide lenses are free of color
aberration or coma. Interestingly because of that interest lenses have
been improved so that they are better now for digital or film. Digital
slrs are different from film slrs and new techniques related to the
technology such a sensor cleaning have to be learned. The the mass
exodus of pro photographers from film does not support the idea that
they are toys.
Winsor
Long Beach, California
USA
On Feb 20, 2004, at 2:10 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> OM content (warning, polemic): the DSLRs that I see are little better
> than point and shoots, given all the restrictions that the sensor
> places on their low light capability. We on the List have long ranted
> against 'wunderbricks', but what we are being presented with are just
> that: clumsy, limited in exposure range, dependent upon batteries of
> limited life, providing flawed reproduction of certain scenes (high
> contrast edges, deep shadows) and slow to use. In addition, we are
> told that the lenses for the SLRs have to be specially designed, the
> shorter focal lengths are subject to a disadvantageous magnification
> factor and dust has to be eliminated with increasingly complex devices.
> Finally, because the sensor sizes that we can afford are small, we
> are
> talking of using software to increase our file sizes for reproduction.
> We are being led down a garden path beset with thorns ladies and
> gentlemen. The DSLRS are gadgets, pretty gadgets I grant you (and I
> love gadgets), but gadgets nonetheless.
>
> Chris
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