On 5/18/2012 3:31 PM, Bob W wrote:
posting them online is not the point. Nobody needs a 24mp sensor for
that.
But people do want to print large, and to be able to crop. In
addition, more pixels generally means other things about the camera
are 'better' (depending on your definition).
If they are making 24mp cameras for people who are making large prints,
they can't be expecting to sell many cameras. The vast majority of
pictures nowadays are viewed on digital displays of some sort, be them
ipads or computer monitors.
Chasing the large print market is a fools game.
One of my nephews is doing his PhD on organic LEDs which we will essentially
be able to paint on large surfaces for practically no cost. Digital displays
are going to become enormous and ubiquitous and very high resolution. You
need to be thinking of your entire wall and more being a high-res display
showing your pictures. The slide show from Hell.
B
I always find that amusing, paint on displays, what miracle of nano
engineering will produce the support circuitry to address the pixels in
this massive array? Will it grow itself? What power source will it
use? That seems to be a major stumbling block.
However now that I think of it I think I've finally figured out the
nature of God and explained why the eye seems to appear fully formed in
the fossil record, some extee engineer was trying to find an organic way
to display his intergalactic cat pictures really big and things just got
out of hand.
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Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a
lengthily search.
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