pixels has nowt to do with it. The manufacturers use it as a selling point, nothing more. One of the best cameras ever was the Nikon D3, full frame, 12 megapixel. The pixels only count if you are shooting in jpeg, shoot RAW and do your own processing and the world is your oyster..
Like in the studio, 6cm square sensor, 80 megapixel and about 10 grands worth of lighting, processing 80mb a second in RAW format? there will always be cameras mate..
Never been into photography but had a couple of mates who were really into it, they always said digital was great for holiday/family snaps but not for real pictures
Digital cameras, whether be on a phone or camera operates through the same process. I have a Huawei pro 20 phone with a 40 megapixel 3 way Leica camera, would never use it for any serious stuff but it is a great camera none the less. Have a look at the photo below, that was taken by me in 2007 with an old 7megapixel lumix, shot in the dead of the night from my son's old flat balcony. It was a B-time 28 second exposure at f1/16 RAW and the shot is of Thornaby bridge. It isn't about the camera so much but how you use it..
Can't see the pic mate (using explorer and really should move on) but either way I would bow to your knowledge, like I said I have never been into photography. Can you change the aperture size and exposure time on a phone camera? all I am capable of is pointing and clicking on my Samsung, it could be far more versatile than I ever thought
I agree. Phone cameras are excellent these days. They fit in your pocket and can produce good pictures. I used to have a Nikon F3 but with the motor drive, the 250 shot back and anything other than a standard 50mm lens it was like doing weight training whilst taking photographs. I did enjoy the developing and printing though and working on the computer is not really the same. You also had to be a little selective with your shots. I waited quite a time before getting a digital but I got Nikon again. The ability to take two thousand shots in no time at all does take some of skill out of it but it is still very enjoyable, and occasionally profitable,
Laptops? Will tablets get better and better and catch up with the power of laptops making them a thing of the past? It's just a tablet with a keyboard attached after all.
Had a conversation with an old roadie, during my rigging days in the eighties, about vinyl, which at that time looked bound for the dustbin of history. He said vinyl would never die because, as sound is a product of natural vibration, it would never be possible to reproduce the same recorded quality digitally as you get with analogue equipment. The general consensus was that the bloke was an old fossil who’d done one too many tabs of acid while on the road with Pink Floyd. Fast forward to today, turns out he was right. You can’t beat vinyl and a decent deck, amp and speakers if you are willing to invest - and plenty are. No other technology has the warmth and depth of vinyl. Record shops are springing up everywhere, which gladdens my old heart no end.
