Where will the next big development in digital go? I'm betting there's a new numbers game - price.

We have hyper-megapixel cameras now, but no one's trying to
design, say, a 20 megapixel camera at a good price. Bet'cha that's
what happens.
A few years back when China started producing DVD players,
some industry observers noted that some even had features that the big
brands didn't... at several hundred dollars less.
Could be interesting.

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We have hyper-megapixel cameras now, but no one's trying to
design, say, a 20 megapixel camera at a good price. Bet'cha that's
what happens.
A few years back when China started producing DVD players,
some industry observers noted that some even had features that the big
brands didn't... at several hundred dollars less.
Could be interesting.

Like this you mean?

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos7d/
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos550d/

Rutger

www.amons.net

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We have hyper-megapixel cameras now, but no one's trying to
design, say, a 20 megapixel camera at a good price. Bet'cha that's
what happens.
A few years back when China started producing DVD players,
some industry observers noted that some even had features that the big
brands didn't... at several hundred dollars less.
Could be interesting.



Mate, we are in for a massive economic crash on a huge scale. It doesn't
take a rocket scientist to work that out.

I think that within the next ten years digital cameras will take multiple
pictures with each push of the shutter and that these multiple exposures
(each using different focus points and exposure values) will be combined to
give both superior depth of field and very high dynamic range.

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We have hyper-megapixel cameras now, but no one's trying to
design, say, a 20 megapixel camera at a good price. Bet'cha that's
what happens.
A few years back when China started producing DVD players,
some industry observers noted that some even had features that the big
brands didn't... at several hundred dollars less.
Could be interesting.

"YDOD" wrote in message
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I think that within the next ten years digital cameras will take multiple
pictures with each push of the shutter and that these multiple exposures
(each using different focus points and exposure values) will be combined to
give both superior depth of field and very high dynamic range.


I think that you've read John Nack's blog five years ago on plenoptic
lenses.

Next.

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:36:14 -0400, wrote:
: We have hyper-megapixel cameras now, but no one's trying to
: design, say, a 20 megapixel camera at a good price. Bet'cha that's
: what happens.
: A few years back when China started producing DVD players,
: some industry observers noted that some even had features that the big
: brands didn't... at several hundred dollars less.
: Could be interesting.

It already is. Someone showed me an 8-megapixel cell phone camera the other
day. Where have you been? ;^)

Bob

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We have hyper-megapixel cameras now, but no one's trying to
design, say, a 20 megapixel camera at a good price. Bet'cha that's
what happens.

The 5D2 is too expensive for you?

-Wolfgang

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:17:33 -0600, "YDOD"
wrote:

I think that within the next ten years digital cameras will take multiple
pictures with each push of the shutter and that these multiple exposures
(each using different focus points and exposure values) will be combined to
give both superior depth of field and very high dynamic range.

I wondered a while back about taking multiples and later
combining them in Photoshop. That's pretty time consuming.
It maybe could happen, but you'd still need to do processing.
There's no way the camera is going to be able to work out what you
want from an image.
It would be nice sometimes to have multiples to work with, but
what you're talking about is very different from simply having
multiple images stitched together into a panorama. They can do that,
but I think if you want high dynamic range, you'll have to settle for
taking quick successive shots and using Photoshop, Gimp, or DX Optics
Pro for a while.
Now, if you know that certain parts of an image will be either
too dark or too bright, and you had a setting where you could control
how many exposures you want to get and how they are combined, then
you'd have something.


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We have hyper-megapixel cameras now, but no one's trying to
design, say, a 20 megapixel camera at a good price. Bet'cha that's
what happens.
A few years back when China started producing DVD players,
some industry observers noted that some even had features that the big
brands didn't... at several hundred dollars less.
Could be interesting.

On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:19:22 -0400, wrote:

It maybe could happen, but you'd still need to do processing.
There's no way the camera is going to be able to work out what you
want from an image.

Already been done 3 years ago.

http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/UBASIC/Scripts:_yet_another_DOF_stacker

Set the near or far focus point, then the other focus extreme, hit a
button. The camera automatically divies-up how many shots are required at
your chosen f/stop to ensure each stacking-frame has overlapping details in
focus. Then just drop them all in any DOF stacker software.

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On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:17:33 -0600, "YDOD"
wrote:

I think that within the next ten years digital cameras will take multiple
pictures with each push of the shutter and that these multiple exposures
(each using different focus points and exposure values) will be combined
to
give both superior depth of field and very high dynamic range.

I wondered a while back about taking multiples and later
combining them in Photoshop. That's pretty time consuming.
It maybe could happen, but you'd still need to do processing.
There's no way the camera is going to be able to work out what you
want from an image.


Ephotozine published a tutorial a while back for increasing DOF using focus
stacking:
http://www.ephotozine.com/photograph...oshop-cs4-1691