What are photographers going to do? (Page 7): oh! my god " what will we do now " --- what did you do when there was no more huge 150 pound 21 inch tv . or worse no more Lp's for your...

Bram boy Loc: Vancouver Island B.C. Canada

cwnlsl wrote:

I notice that computers and laptops seem to be on the way out. The new all in one machines seem to top out with 13" screens. My question is what are we going to do for editing our shots, storing and sharing our shots?
Thanks for your Imput!
Charlotte

oh! my god " what will we do now " --- what did you do when there was no more huge 150 pound 21 inch tv . or worse no more Lp's for your dual record player . or no more eight track . you can always say good riddance . or thank you . and move on to the smaller and faster more of everything that takes it's place . your camera will be about as big as a book of matches with a clear window on one side . inside will be loaded with nano tekknowledge . that
will do what your D800 e does only better .

Los-Angeles-Shooter Loc: Los Angeles

cwnlsl wrote:

I notice that computers and laptops seem to be on the way out. The new all in one machines seem to top out with 13" screens. My question is what are we going to do for editing our shots, storing and sharing our shots?
Thanks for your Imput!
Charlotte

Powerful computers will not go away, nor will full-size keyboards. And we will continue to use large screens with improving color fidelity and resolutions. The screens may be replaced by hologram or other yet-to-be-invented technology, but we'll still need good screens to view and retouch our shots.

Reinaldokool Loc: San Rafael, CA

RWR wrote:

We're going to continue to use desktop computers and laptops, because they are anything but on the way out!

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

A quick perusal of Tigerdirect.com suggests that desktops and laptops are getting more powerful and capable. The market has bifurcated to some degree. Those who do nothing but email and browsing don't need all that power. Many people who do serious gaming or photo/video/graphics do and continue to buy laptops and desktops.

srat50 Loc: Ware, Massachusetts

i'm looking at an Asus i7chip video card with 3 gigs of ram and 32 gigs of memory plus a 17.3 screen
a kick butt laptop

mickley Loc: Schenectady NY

Haydon wrote:

All in ones are to say the least are non performers. People who buy them need to do some homework if they plan to use them for anything other than email.

All-in-one's are the newest version of the dreaded netbook.

If you want to do a real computing job, get a real desktop computer.

mickley Loc: Schenectady NY

Reinaldokool wrote:

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

A quick perusal of Tigerdirect.com suggests that desktops and laptops are getting more powerful and capable. The market has bifurcated to some degree. Those who do nothing but email and browsing don't need all that power. Many people who do serious gaming or photo/video/graphics do and continue to buy laptops and desktops.

Is "serious gaming" a contradiction in terms?

blackest Loc: Ireland

mickley wrote:

Is "serious gaming" a contradiction in terms?

not really a casual gamer will use what they have, a serious gamer will go out to buy the best they can afford in order to have a marginal advantage they want to win just taking part isn't enough. sounds silly but theres even photographers who will spend thousands in order to get a slight improvement in their image quality.

odd isn't it :)

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

blackest wrote:

not really a casual gamer will use what they have, a serious gamer will go out to buy the best they can afford in order to have a marginal advantage they want to win just taking part isn't enough. sounds silly but theres even photographers who will spend thousands in order to get a slight improvement in their image quality.

odd isn't it :)

Economists call it "marginal return on investment." There is a point at which it costs more to get an additional measurable improvement than you can justify, whether by price, enjoyment, or reduction in risk or frustration.

High end computers are useful in video production, photographic processing, engineering, DNA sequencing, financial modeling, 3-D printing, and yes, gaming. So they're not going anywhere, any time soon. We'll see fewer sales of them as a percentage of the market, and perhaps in total sales as well, but they will be critically important for decades to come.

blackest Loc: Ireland

burkphoto wrote:

Economists call it "marginal return on invest... (show quote)

There is the issue of good enough, for business use once you remove servers out of the equation, a lot of jobs while requiring a computer do not require a high end system. Engineers as a loose category yes but call centres not really. I'd take a fair guess a basic system is enough for the majority of business use cases. Without the serious gamer the high end systems would be a lot more expensive. Even hard drive sizes are driven by consumer rather than business needs.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

blackest wrote:

There is the issue of good enough, for business use once you remove servers out of the equation, a lot of jobs while requiring a computer do not require a high end system. Engineers as a loose category yes but call centres not really. I'd take a fair guess a basic system is enough for the majority of business use cases. Without the serious gamer the high end systems would be a lot more expensive. Even hard drive sizes are driven by consumer rather than business needs.

Yep! Tablets and phones will take over a lot more duties in the coming years, as they have done already.

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

burkphoto wrote:

Economists call it "marginal return on invest... (show quote)

The gamer requires a computer that gives a nearly instant response to input from mouse, joystick or whatever and produces the results on the screen. They need lots of processor power, lots of memory and lots of hard drive. These are essentially the same requirements that we need and demand of a computer for processing digital images. So, in essence the serious gamer computer is probably going to be very similar to a photographers computer. Lots of CPU power, dedicated graphics processor, lots of memory, lots of hard drive and good mouse and usb inputs for a drawing tablet external drives and usb card readers.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

dcampbell52 wrote:

The gamer requires a computer that gives a nearly ... (show quote)

:thumbup:

mickley Loc: Schenectady NY

blackest wrote:

not really a casual gamer will use what they have, a serious gamer will go out to buy the best they can afford in order to have a marginal advantage they want to win just taking part isn't enough. sounds silly but theres even photographers who will spend thousands in order to get a slight improvement in their image quality.

odd isn't it :)

Sor of like buying a Mac?

:lol: