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Subject: [OM] Re: Why do digital cameras have a shutter?
From: "Simon Worby" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:34:36 -0000
Barry B. Bean wrote:

> for 
> instance, the editorial pointed out that there' no reason a 
> digital camera needs a shutter, and made the argument that 
> there was no reason a quality LCD couldn't give a better 
> image than the mirrors we're used to in our SLRs.

I'm afraid I think that editor is talking absolute and utter codswallop.
Anything that gets between the eye and the subject is going to cause a
deterioration in the image. Mirrors, lenses, and prisms don't, at least,
alter the basic properties of the light; but digitalising it first and
then looking at a image at massively reduced quality is (to me) just
plain barmy.

Since when have our eyes ever seen things as 3,000 x 2,000 square
pixels? Or even 12,000 x 9,000 pixels? Never. Nor will they ever.

An LCD may be fine for picture framing, but that's as far is it goes.

Simon
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