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DSLR vs P&S a replay of Film vs Digital?
Helmsman3 wrote:
I see no reason to waste my time answering any of your other questions when the last few were such an obvious attempt at stupidity. You run out of answers much faster than I though. Try trolling someone else into being your entertainment. Thanks for the hint, you really are a master of that art. I'm smarter than you. Smarting. http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf -Wolfgang |
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"Helmsman3" wrote in message ... On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:46:03 -0800, nospam wrote: In article , Helmsman3 wrote: Let us for a moment presume there is a sealed-lens/sensor design that doesn't allow in any dust. Takes images in absolute silence. The lens range is a full 180-degree fish-eye to an extremely long zoom, all with either an aperture or sensor ISO high enough to capture even the most difficult of hand-held situations in any settings. The body is of a titanium shell for extreme durability. Few moving parts allows operation in deep sub-zero environments. Let us also presume that the electronic viewfinder (LCD and EVF) is high resolution enough that its display, feedback, and articulation abilities far exceed anything that has been implemented so far, optically or otherwise. Lets also presume that these P&S camera designers also had the foresight to include the options of shooting in the IR and UV portions of the spectrum too. This of course is dependent on an EVF system because no optical viewfinder in the world can accomplish this. Oh what the heck, while we're at it throw in high quality video and CD quality stereo sound recording too so you don't even need your camcorder as an accessory anymore. Why not. Surprisingly I've already found all of these conditions met in only 2 P&S cameras (minus the UV capability and a slightly higher resolution EVF) with only 2 inexpensive, small, and light-weight adapter lenses. and which two p&s cameras might those be? One would think that a resident-troll like yourself with the experience of any well-versed arm-chair photographer of your caliber would be able to figure it out from the precise clues already supplied for you. Just figure out which features belong to which two cameras. Get to work! You really need to start earning your resident-troll and arm-chair photographer pay without someone always handing it to you for free all the time. In a lot fewer words than those, you could have just answered the question. |
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"Helmsman3" wrote in message ... On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:32:29 +0100, "Bill Again" wrote: You might be right. But just as the cheap watch from Woolworths tells me in general the same time as any other watch, for some daft reason I prefer my Rolex. And while my neighbours Nissan takes him adequately from A to B, I prefer, silly as it may sound, driving there in the Mercedes. Daft I know, but personal preferences play heavily in these choices. I am sure, however, that you enjoy your P&S. Keep up the good work, the industry needs you. :-) You have that quite backwards, don't you. The industry needs people like you paying $12,000 on DSLR bodies that only cost $200 to make, and paying $2000 or more per lens when it only costs them $50 each to make. Much more than they need someone like me who only puts his money where it really matters. As they say, a fool and his money are soon parted. I do the research first to know when I'm getting ripped off by some company. I also test things myself instead of depending on some self-appointed internet pros who have never been nearer to any camera than a photograph of one online. Every camera company CEO must raise a glass and a hearty round of laughter in your honor from the deck of their next new yacht that you stupidly paid for without even realizing it. By the way, you're using a really poor if not just totally illogical analogy. The images from my P&S cameras are every bit as good as any of those from any DSLR. If they were not I wouldn't have sold my DSLRs and lenses. From your posts it seems extremely unlikely you've ever even used a DSLR, let alone owned one. I must admit you had me going, though. I actually thought you were serious -- up to the point where you said "a $100 lens can run rings around any $20,000 lens on the market" and claimed to make tack-sharp 1-second exposures hand held. I guess I'm a little slow this morning. Neil |
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On 2007-11-15 20:34:46 -0700, Wolfgang Weisselberg
said: What about lens qualities, like flatness of field, vignetting, resolution, CA, and all the myriad things that can make an image less than appealing? Especially in soupzooms like the one you describe such things are prevalent --- even in really goood ones (for the class). think of the optics in the kit as a toolbox...one kind of craftsman has a collection of well-used implements, many of which have value only to him, while another takes extreme pride in an elegant satin-lined fitted case containing top-of-the line items which look brand new, a third exhibits an attitude which looks a lot like reverse snobbery: tools filthy, dinged, tape & stickers plastered on the sides, etc....I'm not arguing with Wolfgang here, BTW, but offering my own celebration of the interchangeable lens mount...I really enjoy experimenting with different lenses...the other type--the one who wants a do-everything fixed-lens gadget, that looks like a futuristic weapon from a PS3 game--has a totally different approach, but why must it always be "us against them"? The DSLR will have about the same fondness in 15 years as we do when looking back on the flash-cube Instamatic from the late 60's with all its inherent faults, drawbacks, and limitations. The phrase "I can't believe we put up with those DSLRs back then," will be commonly heard. Sure, and you will be crowned "King of the World". when the D3s and the lenses coming out contemporaneously are being cast off, I'll be glad to tinker with them -- "Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know." |
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:09:18 -0500, "Neil Harrington"
wrote in : "Helmsman3" wrote in message .. . [HUGE SNIP] In a lot fewer words than those, you could have just answered the question. And spared us all the insults. Amen! -- Best regards, John Navas Panasonic DMC-FZ8 (and several others) |
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"Pete D" wrote in message ... I really loved the "thousands of photos published", riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, That is a huge stretch. Maybe he will tell us how they were "published." (Perhaps right after he identifies the magical P&S cameras?) He rates a plonk. |
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:04:26 -0500, "Neil Harrington"
wrote: "Helmsman3" wrote in message .. . On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:32:29 +0100, "Bill Again" wrote: You might be right. But just as the cheap watch from Woolworths tells me in general the same time as any other watch, for some daft reason I prefer my Rolex. And while my neighbours Nissan takes him adequately from A to B, I prefer, silly as it may sound, driving there in the Mercedes. Daft I know, but personal preferences play heavily in these choices. I am sure, however, that you enjoy your P&S. Keep up the good work, the industry needs you. :-) You have that quite backwards, don't you. The industry needs people like you paying $12,000 on DSLR bodies that only cost $200 to make, and paying $2000 or more per lens when it only costs them $50 each to make. Much more than they need someone like me who only puts his money where it really matters. As they say, a fool and his money are soon parted. I do the research first to know when I'm getting ripped off by some company. I also test things myself instead of depending on some self-appointed internet pros who have never been nearer to any camera than a photograph of one online. Every camera company CEO must raise a glass and a hearty round of laughter in your honor from the deck of their next new yacht that you stupidly paid for without even realizing it. By the way, you're using a really poor if not just totally illogical analogy. The images from my P&S cameras are every bit as good as any of those from any DSLR. If they were not I wouldn't have sold my DSLRs and lenses. From your posts it seems extremely unlikely you've ever even used a DSLR, let alone owned one. I must admit you had me going, though. I actually thought you were serious -- up to the point where you said "a $100 lens can run rings around any $20,000 lens on the market" and claimed to make tack-sharp 1-second exposures hand held. I guess I'm a little slow this morning. Neil No, you're just slow all around. Those shutter speeds hand-held are quite doable with today's IS cameras. I too tested this. With the right stance it's quite easy. All that you've managed to reveal is that your either very bad at photography or have never used any of the better P&S IS systems out there. Maybe you just need to give up that coffee in the morning when you feel that you are slow. It appears that's not helping, only hurting. While I might question the $100 lens situation, it is quite possible that the OP found a combination that works better with his P&S's camera lens than any other lens on the market. Just by chance it might be optically better than any optical designer could have come up with on the bench. I found a similar situation with one of my tele-converters. If I place a particular flint-glass lens of very low diopter (a surplus acquisition) between the camera and tele-converter, I get less CA than the tele-converter can do on its own. It's of such low-diopter that it only changes the focal range a bit, but well within bounds of the camera's ability to still use it. I have since made a holder for it so I can mount it permanently behind my tele-converter, increasing its performance to a ZERO-CA condition. By chance alone, along with some educated guesswork from studying the CA patterns and knowing about the properties of various glasses, I managed to accomplish what the lens designers could not. Mind you, this is only needed when using it with one of my P&S cameras, something between tele-converter and that particular camera lens don't like each other. The extra element makes them talk to each other quite nicely. It's not impossible to find the right combinations of accessory glass + camera lenses that can do this. But it does require experience, time, research, and sometimes even luck at getting the right combinations. I don't deny the OP his choice to not share that with you. I'm not going to tell you what combo of lenses I use either. Why would I want you to have a better camera than I do? I also lucked out with the sensor on one of my P&S cameras, in that it has near zero noise at ISO 400, no hot pixels, and only 3 slightly warm ones when shutter speeds longer than 10 seconds are used. Just a luck of the draw on sensor batches that day I guess. If only they could study why that happened and replicate it for everyone. There are no absolutes. Just lack of experience in some people. Judging by the misinformed opinions expressed in these newsgroups I'd say the depth of their experience with photography begins and ends with their keyboards. |
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"RealityBytes" wrote in message ... On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:04:26 -0500, "Neil Harrington" wrote: "Helmsman3" wrote in message . .. On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:32:29 +0100, "Bill Again" wrote: You might be right. But just as the cheap watch from Woolworths tells me in general the same time as any other watch, for some daft reason I prefer my Rolex. And while my neighbours Nissan takes him adequately from A to B, I prefer, silly as it may sound, driving there in the Mercedes. Daft I know, but personal preferences play heavily in these choices. I am sure, however, that you enjoy your P&S. Keep up the good work, the industry needs you. :-) You have that quite backwards, don't you. The industry needs people like you paying $12,000 on DSLR bodies that only cost $200 to make, and paying $2000 or more per lens when it only costs them $50 each to make. Much more than they need someone like me who only puts his money where it really matters. As they say, a fool and his money are soon parted. I do the research first to know when I'm getting ripped off by some company. I also test things myself instead of depending on some self-appointed internet pros who have never been nearer to any camera than a photograph of one online. Every camera company CEO must raise a glass and a hearty round of laughter in your honor from the deck of their next new yacht that you stupidly paid for without even realizing it. By the way, you're using a really poor if not just totally illogical analogy. The images from my P&S cameras are every bit as good as any of those from any DSLR. If they were not I wouldn't have sold my DSLRs and lenses. From your posts it seems extremely unlikely you've ever even used a DSLR, let alone owned one. I must admit you had me going, though. I actually thought you were serious -- up to the point where you said "a $100 lens can run rings around any $20,000 lens on the market" and claimed to make tack-sharp 1-second exposures hand held. I guess I'm a little slow this morning. Neil No, you're just slow all around. Those shutter speeds hand-held are quite doable with today's IS cameras. I too tested this. [continuing bull**** deleted] Whaddaya mean, "I too"? From your message header, you appear to be the same jerk. Plonk. |
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Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
Smarting. http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf Brilliant! Validates what I tend to call "delusions of competence". |
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:25:44 -0800 (PST), acl
wrote: On Nov 16, 4:17 pm, Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote: http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf After reading that, I have to say that it is in fact a very interesting paper. Thank you! I wonder how it was received in the relevant research community. Once a troll always a troll. Since that has nothing to do with photography his trollness has been completely revealed. You all fell for it. Not too bright, are you. Some people are smart enough to see them for what they truly are. There's no artificial self-inflation about it. Just fact. |
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