Unfortunately, I think the camera phone is now the "good enough"
standard. The 10MP point & shoot is "high quality".
Chuck Norcutt
Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> 5mp is plenty enough. The Canon 1DII I use has 8 mp, but really it is no
> big deal. Megapixels are overrated. It is especially unfortunate that
> the compact camera makes are using the megapixel count as the most
> important product attribute to emphasize, and so we get all those
> cameras with fingernail-sized sensors onto which 8 or more megapixels
> have been crammed. As a result, performance at ISO speeds above 200
> suffers from image noise, and anything above 400 is virtually useless.
> It is this issue more than anything else that made me buy the E410, to
> replace the Ricoh GRD as my "go everywhere" camera. The GRD has 8
> megapixels; I am sure it would have been a better camera is it had 5 or
> 6 mp instead.
>
> Nathan
>
>
>
> Chris Barker wrote:
>> Great, Nathan, thanks.
>>
>> Now I sense a challenge: I'll see what I can do with my 5mp E-1 ... :-)
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 8 Jul 2007, at 07:14, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi Chris,
>>>
>>> If it is daylight and you are able to get onto the stage, then I think
>>> you will be just fine handheld. I had a backstage pass to an event
>>> called Hilversum Live last week. It was also during the day, and I had
>>> no difficulty shooting at ISO 400:
>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu/hilversumlive07/
>>> (sorry for the off-topic equipment, these were all shot with the Canon
>>> 1DII).
>>>
>>> Nathan
>>>
>>
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