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I'm selling all my gear.....
I heard this a.m. on Z100 out of N.Y., that some phone mfg, is bringing out a camera / phone with 43 megapixels... That's it. I'm done. Selling all my gear, and becoming a Monk. [snicker] Jul 12 13 05:20 am Link PhillipM wrote: haha, i heard about that. Let's see how the photos look, first. Jul 12 13 05:36 am Link Because megapixels define a work of art... Jul 12 13 05:37 am Link I want to see them attach a 300 F4 to that little guy...  Jul 12 13 05:44 am Link Those photos will look amazing when you text them to your friends or post them on Facebook! Jul 12 13 05:56 am Link Best used on duck lips in toilet mirrors Jul 12 13 06:08 am Link PhillipM wrote: that's old news. you've been fine for a while then. don't sweat it. Jul 12 13 06:13 am Link PhillipM wrote: They already do.... Jul 12 13 07:50 am Link FANTASTIC... I know I'm done with the biz now... Poooof Jul 12 13 07:55 am Link Jul 12 13 07:59 am Link PhillipM wrote: I need to get one. Then I can make even more large print quality images that I would never want to print. Jul 12 13 08:27 am Link There were once master blacksmiths who'd apprenticed for years. This particular phone is not the one that will out everyone out of business, but the line between phones, laptops and cameras is going to be blurred permanently within our lifetimes and how people deal with that is going to determine whether or not they can make a living. Ableton just came out with a device yesterday called the Push. They've reinvented the keyboard and it's truly amazing. It's a grid of buttons 8x8 and replaces the piano style keyboard. What's unique is that you can set it so that it lights up in different ways to show you different scales and which notes you can and can not play. It took me a little while to figure out how to best relate to it and once I figured out that a certain option would light it up the way I see a guitar/bass fretboard I could play an entirely new instrument 80% as well as one I've been playing for 30 years - and I'm not a hobbiest guitar player. I went to Berklee and have played arena shows as a session player with the top musicians in the world. There's no question that someone without any musical knowledge starting on this will be way ahead of where anyone starts on other instruments - and this is only the first version. When they have educational functions built in it's going to be insane. It's fine to joke about camera phones now, but people are no longer going to need years to get their technical skills to a pro photographer's level. The idea of being paid for technical skill is over and people are going to have to really think about what it is that people actually pay for to survive. The people who figure that out may make more money than ever. Jul 12 13 08:51 am Link Mikey McMichaels wrote: I'm shooting another senior gal tomorrow. I'm going to them. Mom tells me over the phone, that she's not sure they'll have any good places to shoot over her way. I told her, I'm shooting images of your daughter, and not props. Jul 12 13 10:09 am Link Mikey McMichaels wrote: Well, I think it depends which "technical" skills one talks about. If you are referring to the ability to get correct exposure - then I agree. If you're talking about lighting, I don't. Jul 12 13 10:17 am Link just a reminder....the life of a monk is not always that easy.  Jul 12 13 10:26 am Link More pixels with a tiny sensor isn't very impressive. Jul 12 13 10:32 am Link PhillipM wrote: But a monk with a 43MB camera phone? Jul 12 13 11:07 am Link PhillipM wrote: Lol.. MP don't mean S#$T and don't understand why so many people wet their pants when it comes to high MP's. I can almost guarantee the IQ will be crap - Cramming that many pixels into a tiny little sensor can't be good for IQ. We will have to wait and see. Jul 12 13 11:12 am Link KevinMcGowanPhotography wrote: Priceless Jul 12 13 11:12 am Link Marin Photography NYC wrote: Maybe not to you but to the average person who doesn't know any better, it sure does. Jul 12 13 11:17 am Link I do wish they'd stop calling them phones or even smart phones. Of the list of things these devices do, I'd say "make phone calls" is somewhere in the teens or twenties of importance. Any suggestions as to what we SHOULD call them? Pocket device? Personal Unit? probably too many jokes for that one. Life Device? Honestly, it's not a phone anymore. It's a 24MP camera attached to a touch screen computer that is always connected to the internet which also has the ability to make a phone call, although you'll rarely use it for that. Jul 12 13 11:19 am Link PhillipM wrote: I thought Hassy has had 200MP camera for a little while now. You forgot to do it when it came out? Jul 12 13 11:24 am Link Don't even mind that.. Is nothing to ruin us as photographers. That phone is aimed for people in a way of planned obsolescence. Jul 12 13 11:31 am Link What kinda gear do you have?...  Jul 12 13 11:38 am Link ForeverFotos wrote: ok- this made me laugh out loud. Jul 12 13 11:51 am Link Shot By Adam wrote: You do have a point. Wait till they print that super large grainy image...maybe then they will get it?... Jul 12 13 11:57 am Link Smedley Whiplash wrote: Is that the new NEX? Jul 12 13 12:49 pm Link ForeverFotos wrote: That is easy. Jul 12 13 01:34 pm Link Marin Photography NYC wrote: True, there is only so much that tiny sensor can do. Jul 12 13 01:37 pm Link PhillipM wrote: I don't have a PC that can handel many images of that size! Jul 12 13 01:47 pm Link Smedley Whiplash wrote: Yeah. I'll go plane-spotting with this rig. Jul 12 13 02:01 pm Link they keep piling on the mega pixels like whipcream.. it won't make my cake taste any better, nor my photos any nicer. Don't need it!.... don't own a cell phone either! Jul 12 13 04:37 pm Link I'm about to upgrade to an 18MP camera! And to buy three 4T disks to add to my computer to hold images on... Jul 12 13 04:41 pm Link Can't wait to have so super kick-ass sharp Instagram shots > compressed down to 0.005 mp when it's all said and done, but hey at least it was shot with a sharp 41mp camera phone  Jul 12 13 05:16 pm Link Marin Photography NYC wrote: No they will tell you with a straight face how great the photos are Jul 12 13 05:17 pm Link 12mp has been the magic number for me for a number of years. 41mp is just for people that crop a lot or do posters. Jul 12 13 05:23 pm Link It's just a tool Jul 12 13 05:27 pm Link AJScalzitti wrote: We're all just tools. Jul 12 13 05:42 pm Link To all the people that say the image quality will suck and it will be grainy, isn't that what everyone said when the D800 was first announced? then it turns out to have the best image quality of current cameras and better high iso than a d700. My phone has a 13mp camera, more than my D300, and under certain conditions can come close to the same quality. Even in low light it might be better than my 40D with kit lens. And thats a camera with a sensor maybe 1mm wide Jul 12 13 06:09 pm Link Yingwah Productions wrote: Actually I think many D700 owners might disagree, and didn't the D600 prove to be better than the D800 for low light? Jul 12 13 06:33 pm Link |
bet it has great shadow detail in low light 
