The resurrection of the single focal length lens point & shoot

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:07:18 -0400, nospam
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there's no point in these fixed focal length cameras. the idea is to
get you to buy multiple cameras for every focal length you want to use.
that's really dumb, and expensive.

a much, much better idea is make interchangeable lens compact cameras,
which lets the user decide whether they want a fixed focal length lens
or a zoom lens as needed. there are quite a few of these cameras
available.

And, yes, sensor size is quite a bit larger now than it was then. At the
time, I think the average sensor size on PS cams was around 3 to 5 megs...

that's pixels, not size.

the size of the sensor is anywhere from about the same size to much
larger but as the size goes up, so does the price. in other words, it's
not cheaper.

All I know is that until all these modern innovations of various sorts
settle down and reach some kind of stability, I'm sticking with
interchangable lense SLRs. When I want a lightweight point and shoot
I've already got several of those and don't see the need to spend $900
to $3000 for one.

Dudley Hanks wrote:

OK, so these cams are "single focal length." But, do they incorporate a
"digital zoom"? (i.e. on camera cropping to an image size less than max
possible)

If so, I believe, several years ago, I predicted cam manufacturers would go
this route...

SZ (in one of his many incarnations) and I, and several others of you, were
jabbering on about "zooming with our feet," and I pointed out that
eventually, cam manufacturers would produce cams with large enough sensors
that they could put a good single focus lens on the body and get the same or
better results for average users than using a more expensive lens cheap
sensor configuration.

I love it when I'm right ...

So these cameras do happen to have 90 MPix, so they can get
a film-like 10 MPix out of the tele end of vour not very
ambitious digital 3x zoom?

-Wolfgang