no, this is not about iphone critics. i am just referring to the increasingly nutty number of pixels on those wee sensors of digital point-and-shoot cameras. the photographic result of this numbers game is a disaster and an embarrassment to photography: at ISO 400, many of the latest crop of 8 and 10mp cameras
produce images that are inferior to what we can [still] get with a plastic throw-away film camera with the same rating film. as always there is a silver lining to this cloud: given the usually mediocre sharpening algorithm in these cameras, at higher sensitivity, one gets lovely watercolor impressionism without needing silly photoshop
filters. who needs sharp detail? just look at those blotches of color: a family picture where you can only guess who is who.
sure, i exaggerate, but not by much.
it would be
really good to have a pocket-size digital camera for half-serious photography, say something with nearly as good images as a kodak one-use camera...
filters. who needs sharp detail? just look at those blotches of color: a family picture where you can only guess who is who.
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