You should be addressing Ken, not both of us. Your point is exactly the
point I was trying to make.
Chuck Norcutt
On 3/4/2012 12:42 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Guys, can I offer a reality check?
>
> I have been a keen photographer since 1985. I switched to digital in
> 2004 for the majority of my shooting. At the moment, I have a Leica
> M8, a Pentax K5, and a Fuji X100 as my principal picture-taking
> tools. And you know what? I have NO IDEA whether these cameras have a
> CCD or CMOS sensor, and I could not care less. Those are just
> meaningless letters to me. What is meaningful to me is image
> quality.
>
> Cheers, Nathan
>
> On 4 Mar, 2012, at 18:29 , Ken Norton wrote:
>
>> Chuck, I really beg to differ on this point. It would be
>> revisionist history for you to say that people didn't associate
>> clean images with CMOS. You and both know that technically both
>> technologies are capable of equivalent image quality, but that
>> didn't matter because we, the consumers clamored for CMOS because
>> Canon proved how much superior it was even though Canon would have
>> been just as successful with CCD. But CCD was the established
>> standard dominated by Kodak and Sony in fabrication.
>>
>> Ag
>>
>> On Sunday, March 4, 2012, Chuck
>> Norcutt<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I was following you until you made the following (IMHO)
>>> preposterous statement. Part of the reason for buying a Canon 5D
>>> was its low noise performance at high ISO. I couldn't have cared
>>> less whether Canon achieved that with CMOS or CCD or baked mud
>>> pies with embedded circuitry... and still don't. Buyers choose
>>> CMOS over CCD because of a "change in the lettering"? 98% of
>>> them haven't a clue what any of it means. Gimme me a break!
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/4/2012 10:40 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>>> Within the digital world, we had CCD and CMOS. CCD was superior
>>>> (and could still be superior), but the challenger
>> (Canon)
>>>> came out with a decent CMOS product and the customers
>>>> identified (either correctly or incorrectly) that the advantage
>>>> was due to the change in lettering. Companies that stuck to
>>>> their CCD guns lost. Those that
>> quickly
>>>> adapted did well.
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