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To: SeekAndFind
He is partially wrong on the cameras, But "point and click" models will prbably be overtaken by camera phones. Truth is, my 50 digital camera blows away the best picture from a cellphone. By 2025, that wont be the case, I would hope anyway!

That said, there is still a very large market for upscale cameras, and superzooms. You simply can't pack that kind of camera-ing in a small package, it violates the laws of optics. (That said, there might be some cool stuff coming eventually with thin film wave guid lensing).

3 posted on 08/21/2012 2:42:45 PM PDT by Paradox (I want Obama defeated. Period.)
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To: Paradox

I think the only surviving camera model (unless you’re a serious photographer) will be the camera-printer “instamatic” model. I just saw one the other day, tiny, basic, but prints out a 2x3 photo instantly. That’s exactly what a lot of people want, just a little physical souvenir to give to the subject of the photo.

Other than that, my only difference is that I’d say that the US will remain a superpower...if we get rid of Obama in this election, wipe up every trace of his foul passage through our national history, and go on with our lives.


9 posted on 08/21/2012 2:50:54 PM PDT by livius
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To: Paradox
He is partially wrong on the cameras, But "point and click" models will prbably be overtaken by camera phones.

I agree. I don't care how many megapixels a camera has if it has a crappy little lense. With cameras, optics are everthing.

13 posted on 08/21/2012 3:00:08 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: Paradox

I shoot RAW images, camera phones can’t handle RAW format, can they?


23 posted on 08/21/2012 3:28:16 PM PDT by ropin71 (God Bless our Troops!)
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To: Paradox
I don't think he is wrong at all on cameras.

He just forgot to mention one of the innovations that goes with the switch from film to digital: the development of new flat surface lens mounting systems.

This lets you have an array of real optical lenses to gather the image for your phone or tablet's sensors.

With a big enough sensor, eventually this will get you to what you can do with a DSLR.

34 posted on 08/21/2012 4:04:51 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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