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Subject: Re: [OM] The 1983 America's Cup yacht race and the camera market today
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:26:18 -0500
It is not revisionist history for me to make the claims that I did since 
I have never held any such opinions about the superiority of one 
technology over the other.  As I said, I'd be perfectly happy to have 
baked mud pies with embedded circuitry as long as it delivers the best 
results.

Chuck Norcutt


On 3/4/2012 12:29 PM, 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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