Kostas Kavoussanakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> will come down. One person I know in the camera business says he thinks >> the reason manufacturers are replacing their 3MP digicams with >> 4MP-and-up versions is that they are expecting 3MP phone cameras to >> become commonplace before too long. > >I was talking with the wife yesterday who knows next to nowt about >photography and equipment, and claimed that, given the same >operator, pictures are taken by lenses, not cameras. Sure, I was >referring to film, where you can assume the same medium. Is the sensor >so much more important than lenses in digital photography? And what >kind of lens can you stick on a phone? > >Oh, and I conveniently forgot that comparing by the MP, is (almost) >like comparing films by the ISO setting; there are so many other >parameters, notably sensor surface and its effect to noise.
True. But as I said, I heard this from someone in *in the camera business* - in other words, someone who knows from long experience how the majority of consumers make their buying decisions. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
