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Subject: [OM] Re: Advice please- stage photography
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:07:01 -0400
Unfortunately, I think the camera phone is now the "good enough" 
standard.  The 10MP point & shoot is "high quality".

Chuck Norcutt

Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> 5mp is plenty enough. The Canon 1DII I use has 8 mp, but really it is no 
> big deal. Megapixels are overrated. It is especially unfortunate that 
> the compact camera makes are using the megapixel count as the most 
> important product attribute to emphasize, and so we get all those 
> cameras with fingernail-sized sensors onto which 8 or more megapixels 
> have been crammed. As a result, performance at ISO speeds above 200 
> suffers from image noise, and anything above 400 is virtually useless. 
> It is this issue more than anything else that made me buy the E410, to 
> replace the Ricoh GRD as my "go everywhere" camera. The GRD has 8 
> megapixels; I am sure it would have been a better camera is it had 5 or 
> 6 mp instead.
> 
> Nathan
> 
> 
> 
> Chris Barker wrote:
>> Great, Nathan, thanks.
>>
>> Now I sense a challenge: I'll see what I can do with my 5mp E-1 ... :-)
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 8 Jul 2007, at 07:14, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Hi Chris,
>>>
>>> If it is daylight and you are able to get onto the stage, then I think
>>> you will be just fine handheld. I had a backstage pass to an event
>>> called Hilversum Live last week. It was also during the day, and I had
>>> no difficulty shooting at ISO 400:
>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu/hilversumlive07/
>>> (sorry for the off-topic equipment, these were all shot with the Canon
>>> 1DII).
>>>
>>> Nathan
>>>     
>>
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