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 Post subject: DSLRs are a dying breed
PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:36 pm 
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Check out these links. I have to say I've been thinking the same thing for a while now. DSLRs will never go away but for the masses it will not be a necessity to get outstanding images imho.

http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2012/01/0 ... he-future/
http://photofocus.com/2012/01/06/future ... ck-player/

Opinions? I'm sure you have some. :)

And this video of with Trey Ratcliff, Thomas Hawk and others is pretty cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... ourw6OHSM#!


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Seren Dipity wrote:
Check out these links. I have to say I've been thinking the same thing for a while now. DSLRs will never go away but for the masses it will not be a necessity to get outstanding images imho.

http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2012/01/0 ... he-future/
http://photofocus.com/2012/01/06/future ... ck-player/

Opinions? I'm sure you have some. :)


I think one has to look at the bottom end of the P&S market. In a just a few years the market has dropped out replaced by phones. The camera phones are just going to get better. My playbook has better HD video then the previous generation P&S.

I think the first writer is some what optimistic as the 3rd generation because of limitations in technology doesn't have enough traction to replace a DSLR. But 4th generation may have all the benefits and qualities of a DSLR in a compact package, at a less expensive price.


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oh-kee, soooo, how do you argue with the absolute???

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/n ... on-d4A.HTM

:shock: :? 8)


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oh-kee, soooo, how do you argue with the absolute???

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/n ... on-d4A.HTM

:shock: :? 8)

by looking at a price tag :roll:


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Vilk wrote:
oh-kee, soooo, how do you argue with the absolute???

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/n ... on-d4A.HTM

:shock: :? 8)

by looking at a price tag :roll:


By no means absolute go big or go home 8)
http://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2011/12/bi ... omparison/


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Vilk wrote:
oh-kee, soooo, how do you argue with the absolute???

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/n ... on-d4A.HTM

:shock: :? 8)

by looking at a price tag :roll:


By no means absolute go big or go home 8)
http://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2011/12/bi ... omparison/


thanks. i'll take home+D4 over that ultra-mobile wheelbarrows installation of the 8x10 rapid-load(*) toyo on it

(*) 11 fph, no battery required


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Vilk wrote:
oh-kee, soooo, how do you argue with the absolute???

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/n ... on-d4A.HTM

:shock: :? 8)

by looking at a price tag :roll:


the absolute has no price tag, it is pure bliss (in fact, just thinking about it is pure bliss) :P


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Camera companies are not unaware of the advancements in technology in cell phone cameras. They didnt start manufacturing micro four thirds cameras because they want us to take better photos. These cameras came about to replace that $400-800 camera market. Unless camera companies all of the sudden refuse to evolve, or our society takes a 180 and doesnt want to continually consume better and more advanced goods because theyre happy with the quality of their current cameras; not much will change.


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here's Digital Rev's take on it. Love their vids

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmLLgUG1 ... AAAAAAADAA


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Camera companies are not unaware of the advancements in technology in cell phone cameras. They didnt start manufacturing micro four thirds cameras because they want us to take better photos. These cameras came about to replace that $400-800 camera market. Unless camera companies all of the sudden refuse to evolve, or our society takes a 180 and doesnt want to continually consume better and more advanced goods because theyre happy with the quality of their current cameras; not much will change.

Precisely.
If things are evolving on the low end, they are also evolving on the high-end.
As long as the market consumes the next generation of thing, there will always be significant gaps between high and low-end.
Compared to today's standards and the information we know, things may look like they are "dying" but that just means they will push the upper limit further.


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Cell phone camera's will probably only ever replace the shitty crop of point and shoot camera's. DSLR's are not going to become a thing of the past anytime soon. Especially not at the high end level.


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I, for one, wouldn't mind a full frame interchangeable lens 'compact'.. I don't even need the auto focus as long as the display has near 0 latency and has pixel density to be indistinguishable from the optical view finder...


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In addition to new sensor technology that should be coming on line soon there will start to be revolutionary designs in adaptive optics. Up to this point lens designs have been relatively conservative with the main advances due to better optical design software combined with the ability to mold and machine high quality aspherical optics. Plus so high tech image stabilization. The future may will most likely include adaptive optics, envision a 14mm to 200mm f2 zoom for full frame the size and weight of a pancake lens with qualities of the better primes. The technology exists today, commercially not so much except maybe for use is in projectors with TI type micro mirrors. Another simple use is trifocal eye glasses http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/201 ... y&emc=cta3

Quality zoom lenses in the near future will have less mechanical parts be more compact, have a wider range and be just as good or better over the whole zoom range. The DSLR may indeed be going the way of the film camera.


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And with all that said, Film photography is actually making a record breaking comeback, as younger generations are snapping up the old TLR's and whatnot and keeping the film industry alive as they want to experience and shoot "retro" style. Thank you to the hipsters who thought medium format would be 'kewl'


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And with all that said, Film photography is actually making a record breaking comeback, as younger generations are snapping up the old TLR's and whatnot and keeping the film industry alive as they want to experience and shoot "retro" style. Thank you to the hipsters who thought medium format would be 'kewl'


More of a vinyl copying then a record breaking, the free fall landing has been cushioned by a foam pillow. :D

http://soundcloud.com/film-photography- ... dcast-2011


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Check out these links. I have to say I've been thinking the same thing for a while now. DSLRs will never go away but for the masses it will not be a necessity to get outstanding images imho.

http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2012/01/0 ... he-future/
http://photofocus.com/2012/01/06/future ... ck-player/

Opinions? I'm sure you have some. :)

And this video of with Trey Ratcliff, Thomas Hawk and others is pretty cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... ourw6OHSM#!


in my opinion, this is good news... I don't think PROs will move away from DSLRs anytime soon, only the regular consumers will


I agree


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it won't die as long as people use them :D
we all have a dslr don't we


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And Kodak film won't be going anywhere too soon either


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most of the cameras on a smart phone, they just use a magnifying glass with software control on them, simply or maybe the next generation would be the compact dslr


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