[Leica] Re: Nikon's profits tripled

[feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli di Giorgio)]

On Nov 21, 2004, at 6:21 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> Very soon they're all going to figure out just how big the file sizes 
> really
> have to be which is not all that big for PJ and lots of other work and 
> the
> competition won't be for file size any more but QUALITY!
>
> Sure there will be cameras with APS-c large file sizes, full frame 
> 24x36
> CCD's and medium and large format CCD's which blur together for the
> landscape photographers and others who need files that size. But how 
> many
> really do? How many applications and markets?
> A definite but not overwhelming segment.
>
> Perhaps less than what used medium and large format film but perhaps 
> not.
> Now its been reduced to a kind of crude pissing contest.
>
> To win undecided voters.


I would be very happy with a 10-12MP full frame camera.
Manageable file sizes, DOF of a 135, low noise at high ASA, due
to the large size of individual receptors. I really don't need 20MP
for what I do...

feli

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