For what he's measuring in that article, he's completely right : )
Even doubly so because when it comes to photographic quality you can get around most camera body limitations but if the lens is bad/distorts/doesn't focus well/etc... you're screwed : )
Mostly - i'm thinking out loud to find a good balance between price, focal length (so that I can take pictures of, say, surfers, and not have them look like lego-men), and quality (so that i don't end up with pictures of very large, distorted lego men : ).
I'm also starting to cross the threshold between random guy with a nice camera to semi-professional photographer (with an eye towards getting rid of that 'semi' up there : ) - so these things start to matter more to me.
It is funny to see the things people go ga ga over. Focusing on things like how many megapixels a camera has (and ignoring the fact that often times, a lower megapixel count camera will take -higher-quality- images than a higher megapixel count camera with the same sensor size : ) or random crap like that is ... just silly. (Though, even then - stock photography sites are setting fairly high minimum megapixel counts for submitted images, so that's one place where having more becomes something of a need).
Anyway - it's far too easy to get me rambling on this stuff, i should stop now : )
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Date: 2006-03-20 08:53 pm (UTC)Even doubly so because when it comes to photographic quality you can get around most camera body limitations but if the lens is bad/distorts/doesn't focus well/etc... you're screwed : )
Mostly - i'm thinking out loud to find a good balance between price, focal length (so that I can take pictures of, say, surfers, and not have them look like lego-men), and quality (so that i don't end up with pictures of very large, distorted lego men : ).
I'm also starting to cross the threshold between random guy with a nice camera to semi-professional photographer (with an eye towards getting rid of that 'semi' up there : ) - so these things start to matter more to me.
It is funny to see the things people go ga ga over. Focusing on things like how many megapixels a camera has (and ignoring the fact that often times, a lower megapixel count camera will take -higher-quality- images than a higher megapixel count camera with the same sensor size : ) or random crap like that is ... just silly. (Though, even then - stock photography sites are setting fairly high minimum megapixel counts for submitted images, so that's one place where having more becomes something of a need).
Anyway - it's far too easy to get me rambling on this stuff, i should stop now : )