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07/10/2012 06:31:51 PM · #1 |
Wow, how times have changed, and yet so much remains just the same. :)
I was researching some old cameras and came across this review which turned out to be pretty fun to read:
//www.dantestella.com/technical/dcs14n.html
Here are some of my favorites bits:
Originally posted by Dante Stella:
The 14n has an absolutely fantastic CMOS sensor. It's not fast at a native speed of 80 and a maximum excellent picture speed of 160, but since when were fast film or fast CCDs any good. |
That was indeed true in 2002 wasn't it? ISO 12,800 wasn't even on the radar.
Originally posted by Dante Stella:
The amount of hardware necessary to replicate 35mm film in performance is something that should be sobering to people who think that one day Leica is just going to bring out a digital back someday for the M cameras. |
Heh.. I guess that did happen, even though it wasn't just a back... :)
Originally posted by Dante Stella:
Cold startup time is 7 seconds, not 30 as some people claim. |
Pretty fast huh? :)
I certainly enjoyed that the reference point in the review is good ol' film. It's fun to remember those days and lusting after such equipment.
What's perhaps most surprising to me is the realization that a 14MP full frame camera was created in 2002. After all, as much as we complain about the megapixel race, it really hasn't seen the same changes in the full-frame world as it has in the P&S market over the same period of time.
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07/10/2012 07:00:48 PM · #2 |
Originally posted by Cory:
I certainly enjoyed that the reference point in the review is good ol' film. It's fun to remember those days and lusting after such equipment. |
Ah yes, the good old days, when the film-vs-digital debate burned hotter than the hinges of Hades! ;-)
Originally posted by Cory:
What's perhaps most surprising to me is the realization that a 14MP full frame camera was created in 2002. After all, as much as we complain about the megapixel race, it really hasn't seen the same changes in the full-frame world as it has in the P&S market over the same period of time. |
Yep, both the Kodak and also the Canon 1Ds (11.4 Mpx). Arguably, the Canon was a more polished product, but at an astoundingly high price point. It's amazing to see how far the "full frame" 35mm segment has come in the decade since. We now have products that do flirt with the medium format performance specs and yet feature operational speed and AF performance we'd have killed for then, at price points that continue to fall (though not as fast as in the past).
It's going to be an interesting next decade, methinks.
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07/10/2012 09:02:04 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by Cory:
Originally posted by Dante Stella:
The amount of hardware necessary to replicate 35mm film in performance is something that should be sobering to people who think that one day Leica is just going to bring out a digital back someday for the M cameras. |
Heh.. I guess that did happen, even though it wasn't just a back... :) |
And it DID take $8,000 worth of hardware ...
FWIW there were scanning backs for large-format (4x5, 8x10) cameras in the 1990's; one of the first all-digital projects to get wide attention was Stephen Johnson's survey of the National Parks with an 8x10 ... |
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