If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Kodak bankruptcy (again)
In article , Miles Bader
wrote: My cellphone has a great camera (truly amazing considering the size it fits into), but using an external lcd instead of a viewfinder is complete misery in many situations... who said anything about an external lcd? I mean what every cellphone / pad / ... has: an LCD on the outside of the unit (as opposed to a viewfinder which you put up to your eye). to me, that's a built-in lcd. and external lcd is one which is tethered to the camera and usually much bigger than what the camera has. I often wish I had a real camera, not for the increased quality, but just so I can take pictures in the sunlight without needing 3 hands and yoga training. you must have one of the most unusual cellphones ever made. Hmm, no it's pretty normal (for Japan), although it has an unusually good quality camera. What I mean is this: When it's sunny, it's quite common that the LCD display on a cellphone is completely obscured by glare _and/or_ the sun causes glare/artifacts through the camera lens. So what I end up doing is, holding the phone with one hand, while trying to shield the display enough to see something with another, _and_ trying to use another hand to shade the lens to avoid the worst glare effects in the image. As you can see, that's three hands... :] Since I don't have three hands, what I actually end up doing usually involves quite a bit of contortion, trying to use one hand for both, or stand in the shade of a pole or something or ...... anyway, it's a big pain. no different than any other camera that has an lcd and a lot of them no longer have optical viewfinders at all. A camera viewfinder avoids the problems with the display, at least, and generally makes everything more manageable. This is why I'd like one. then buy a camera with one. most people don't find it to be a big deal, or they shade the camera with their other hand. [and a pad, is _worse_, because you basically need two hands to hold it up (the ipad, at least is quite heavy [and the 3rd gen even heavier, from all reports]).] or you don't shoot in bright sunlight with it glaring on the display. [And tablets?! A big fad right now, tablets are unquestionably *not* a fad. their popularity is growing like crazy and you're in denial if you think otherwise. ... which doesn't mean they're not a fad of course. it's not a guarantee but it's very obvious they're not. Anyway, I'm sure they have a good solid niche, but they certainly aren't perfect, or some sort of universal replacement for all other devices. The "faddishness" is people who suddenly think they _are_ the latter. nothing is perfect and it's not supposed to be a replacement for anything. but also a _really_ horrible form-factor for a camera, even for a very uncritical audience tablets may not be the ideal form factor if their sole function was a camera but if you happen to have a tablet with you, why not its camera? That was my point: Tablets are cumbersome enough that people _don't_ usually bring them along wherever they go. they're starting to bring them instead of laptops Most probably _do_ always carry their cellphone, however, so cellphones are much better bet as the future of casual photography than pads are. sure, but that doesn't mean tablets won't be used. not that many people use dslrs as compared to p&s and cell cameras. having a 10" or even 7" viewfinder is extremely nice and with a tripod mount, you essentially have a view camera, one that is vastly more portable than a real view camera. Er, well, except for whole image quality thing which is really the only reason people put up with view cameras in the first place... and now they can get 1080p with a full size 1080p display, not some dinky 1" evf or 3" lcd. Most pictures, even by casual photographers aren't taken in the living room, but in places where it's very unlikely people will have dragged a tablet along.] yet they drag a bulky slr with a bag full of lenses wherever they go. also, what makes you think they won't drag a tablet along? [Some] people put up with the cumbersomeness of SLRs because they want the advantages of an SLR: good quality images[*], speed, etc. Tablets provide mediocre quality images, no better than a cell phone or P&S. People that demand such features can't get them from a tablet, and people that don't demand them are likely to prefer to avoid dragging anything along (as their phone or P&S can likely provide the same quality with greater convenience). different tools for different jobs. [*] Many aspects of which are very hard to provide without large lenses (high quality zooms, popular effects like shallow DOF and bokeh which are impractical to provide with very small sensors and small apertures), making it unlikely that the sort of very small embedded cameras in phones / pads will ever completely really take over the DSLR market. nobody expects that cellphones will take over the slr market. however, they *are* impacting the p&s market. unlike an slr with lenses, a tablet fits in a jacket pocket. That's a bit of a stretch .... :] not really. 7" tablets easily fit in nearly any jacket and 10" tablets fit in some. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Kodak bankruptcy (again) | Dale[_2_] | Digital Photography | 27 | May 16th 12 09:34 PM |
Kodak bankruptcy | Dale[_2_] | In The Darkroom | 3 | March 26th 12 01:39 AM |
Kodak close to declaring bankruptcy | Walter Banks | 35mm Photo Equipment | 5 | January 29th 12 12:44 PM |