50-megapixel Canon EOS 5DS and 5DS R
Mar 26, 2015 06:46:00 #
This should trigger a lot of pages. I personally am delighted and hope Nikon's next 5000 series (affordable) camera tries to beat them with 55megapixels, but I have always heard a roar in the background about more megapixels don't mean a better photo. Nikon blew Canon away for a while with 24megapixels. It is like Canon came up with an H bomb against Nikon's old A bomb.
Mar 26, 2015 06:51:35 #
The heck with 50mp! I want some of those CIA spy satellite cameras! I want to be able to read the license plate on a gnat on an African elephant's butt from my living room window!:)
Mar 26, 2015 06:52:46 #
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Mar 26, 2015 07:02:04 #
You are talking about a telescope, I think, with a camera attached...ok it's just another type of lens...you can buy some quite good table top telescopes like Questar (?) that you attach a camera to...you may not see the license plate, but you will get a great butt shot. (shift to visual)
LFingar wrote:
The heck with 50mp! I want some of those CIA spy satellite cameras! I want to be able to read the license plate on a gnat on an African elephant's butt from my living room window!:)
Mar 26, 2015 07:03:48 #
georgevedwards wrote:
This should trigger a lot of pages. I personally am delighted and hope Nikon's next 5000 series (affordable) camera tries to beat them with 55megapixels, but I have always heard a roar in the background about more megapixels don't mean a better photo. Nikon blew Canon away for a while with 24megapixels. It is like Canon came up with an H bomb against Nikon's old A bomb.
Nikon should go to 100MP. That will keep Canon busy for a while. :D
Mar 26, 2015 07:06:53 #
georgevedwards wrote:
You are talking about a telescope, I think.
Telescope? You mean to say that they got a CIA spook sitting in those spy satellites taking notes through a telescope? And here I thought they were using cameras! Talk about dedication! Those things burn up when they re-enter! :-D
Mar 26, 2015 07:08:07 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Nikon should go to 100MP. That will keep Canon busy for a while. :D
If they do they will probably just end up buying their sensors from Canon! :-D
Mar 26, 2015 07:17:35 #
georgevedwards wrote:
I give up, why not?
Because disk space and memory is not free. Why have more resolution than can reasonably be used.
I have 1TB and 8GB memory in my computer now. What next new computer with 1 PB and 128 GB just so you can download all those pixels.
Ge great for measuring lens distortion though.
Mar 26, 2015 07:26:19 #
georgevedwards wrote:
I give up, why not?
I want 155MP, noiseless 12800 ISO, 20EV Dynamic Range, 200 cross type focus points and a 4TB SD card.
I want it now, I want it yesterday and I'll want F'n more tomorrow!!
Oh........ and.....no video please.
Mar 26, 2015 07:32:49 #
Psergel wrote:
I want 155MP, noiseless 12800 ISO, 20EV Dynamic Range, 200 cross type focus points and a 4TB SD card.
I want it now, I want it yesterday and I'll want F'n more tomorrow!!
Oh........ and.....no video please.
I want it now, I want it yesterday and I'll want F'n more tomorrow!!
Oh........ and.....no video please.
NO! Every pixel should contin a cross type point!!!! EVERY ONE OF THEM!!!! :wink:
Mar 26, 2015 07:42:50 #
Psergel wrote:
I want 155MP, noiseless 12800 ISO, 20EV Dynamic Range, 200 cross type focus points and a 4TB SD card.
I want it now, I want it yesterday and I'll want F'n more tomorrow!!
Oh........ and.....no video please.
I want it now, I want it yesterday and I'll want F'n more tomorrow!!
Oh........ and.....no video please.
Sheesh... who has computing power to handle all those MP's? Who wants to go back to the judicious shooting of film days because it takes just as long to load a loser photo as a winner? When I can afford a 65 GHz processor, I'll consider a 50MP camera... though it would pretty cool to double or triple all my existing lens's focal length via crop factor...
Mar 26, 2015 08:01:47 #
fuminous wrote:
Sheesh... who has computing power to handle all those MP's? Who wants to go back to the judicious shooting of film days because it takes just as long to load a loser photo as a winner? When I can afford a 65 GHz processor, I'll consider a 50MP camera... though it would pretty cool to double or triple all my existing lens's focal length via crop factor...
Back in the early 80's we used to say "a personal computer will never be able to address more than 640K!" Then came mapping and swapping and we could do a full Meg!!
Mar 26, 2015 08:51:21 #
dsmeltz wrote:
Back in the early 80's we used to say "a personal computer will never be able to address more than 640K!" Then came mapping and swapping and we could do a full Meg!!
When I first moved to Albuquerque nearly 25 years ago, I built myself a new computer and paid $400 for a 40meg SCSI drive! 40Meg...not gig.
Now there is virtually no reason to fuss with SCSI drives and I can get 4T for about half of what I paid for 40 Meg back in 1991.
I think my machine back then ran at 4MHZ. The machine I'm using now runs at 4GHZ. I can't even remember how it all worked but you had base memory, extended memory AND expanded memory. You needed a memory manager to even make use of it.
Now....just plug in more and or bigger DIMMs and away you go.
The rate of change may have slowed a bit but it's still amazing. Who knows where things will be 25 years from now.
Mar 26, 2015 09:12:48 #
Psergel wrote:
When I first moved to Albuquerque nearly 25 years ... (show quote)
My recollection is that base memory (in the 80's) was 640k, extended was the difference between the 640k that the machines could deal with and the 1Meg that was on the chips. While the machine could only "look" at 640 at a time it could switch around looking at different parts of the 1Meg. Expanded memory was achieved by temporarily swapping some of what was on the 1Meg a dedicated part of the Hard Drive (the expanded memory) with other information already in expanded memory.
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