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Subject: Re: [OM] The 1983 America's Cup yacht race and the camera market today
From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:42:39 +0100
Guys, can I offer a reality check? 

I have been a keen photographer since 1985. I switched to digital in 2004 for 
the majority of my shooting. At the moment, I have a Leica M8, a Pentax K5, and 
a Fuji X100 as my principal picture-taking tools. And you know what? I have NO 
IDEA whether these cameras have a CCD or CMOS sensor, and I could not care 
less. Those are just meaningless letters to me. What is meaningful to me is 
image quality.

Cheers,
Nathan

On 4 Mar, 2012, at 18:29 , Ken Norton wrote:

> Chuck, I really beg to differ on this point. It would be revisionist
> history for you to say that people didn't associate clean images with CMOS.
> You and both know that technically both technologies are capable of
> equivalent image quality, but that didn't matter because we, the consumers
> clamored for CMOS because Canon proved how much superior it was even though
> Canon would have been just as successful with CCD. But CCD was the
> established standard dominated by Kodak and Sony in fabrication.
> 
> Ag
> 
> On Sunday, March 4, 2012, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> I was following you until you made the following (IMHO) preposterous
>> statement.  Part of the reason for buying a Canon 5D was its low noise
>> performance at high ISO.  I couldn't have cared less whether Canon
>> achieved that with CMOS or CCD or baked mud pies with embedded
>> circuitry... and still don't.  Buyers choose CMOS over CCD because of a
>> "change in the lettering"?  98% of them haven't a clue what any of it
>> means.  Gimme me a break!
>> 
>> Chuck Norcutt
>> 
>> 
>> On 3/4/2012 10:40 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>> Within the digital world, we had CCD and CMOS.
>>> CCD was superior (and could still be superior), but the challenger
> (Canon)
>>> came out with a decent CMOS product and the customers identified (either
>>> correctly or incorrectly) that the advantage was due to the change in
>>> lettering. Companies that stuck to their CCD guns lost. Those that
> quickly
>>> adapted did well.
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