What I love about the new pro camera's is the low light sensitivity and low noise levels in the pictures truly amazing the images a Nikon or Cannon can make in low light now days. An they are doing great things with video now. The Olympus PEN cameras are real interesting in that they can use 35 mm camera lenses so all those old lenses can still be used. http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_digital_slr.asp?section=pen
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Fletcher Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 11:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MacGroup] Canon G10 - new thread from iPhone 4 On Jun 27, 2010, at 10:44 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > See, you know what you are talking about! I'm shocked! I say SHOCKED that you would even consider otherwise! ::-) > I just can't figure out if the G11 is so much better why the new G10's are > close to $1,000.00 and used ones are bringing close to $500.00? Why do they > not buy the G11? Some people still think more megapixels means more better. Problem is that there are other things to consider, too. > > I also am so dumb at this I need you to explain. IF the the sensor is about > the same size but the fewer pixels allow more light then why not choke it > down to 2 or 3 on the mp? John, I never thought of you as speechless! Well, to a certain extent more megapixels means greater POTENTIAL quality. But when you have a really tiny sensor and cram so many pixels onto it you have to give up something. In this case the G10 can't shoot for beans in low light. (Believe me, I've tried.) Canon answered the bevy of complaints about the G10 with bigger pixels. A bigger sensor definitely WOULD have put it closer to their pro SLRs, so they went with bigger, but fewer, pixels. Still, the G11 still cannot compete with the awesome light-catchers in the pro SLR offerings of Canons and Nikons of the world. But it's not designed for that. Tradeoffs have existed in photography since before Kodak started making cameras that took that new-fangled film-on-a-roll, or the first guy who re-spooled 35mm movie film to put in a still camera. Do you want to carry around an IMAX camera or a Flip Mino (or better yet an iPhone!). The answer is, as always, "It depends." ::-) -- Jonathan Fletcher FileMaker 9 & 10 Certified Developer Fletcher Data Consulting [email protected] http://www.fletcherdata.com 502-509-7137 Kentuckiana's Only FileMaker Users Group: Listserv signup: http://fmpug.com/mailman/listinfo/louisville_fmpug.com Blog: http://kyfmp.com Next meeting: 7/15/10 1:00 pm _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
