Tag Archives: digital photo

The End Of Megapixel Wars – Part II – The Canon S90

November 9, 2009 – 9:00 am

TweetLast August, I wrote about picture quality finally winning against macho marketing. In other words, it seemed Canon, Nikon and Sony were giving up the simplistic escalation: my camera has more pixels than yours, therefore it is better. In the P&S (Point & Shoot) category especially, the facts were that more pixels ended up producing [...]

Edited by Jean-Louis Gassée | Posted in hardware | Comments (3)

The End of Megapixel Wars

August 23, 2009 – 9:45 am

TweetFinally, reason is about to prevail over marketing machismo. Specifically, Canon and Sony are coming up with more advanced cameras featuring less pixels.
Why? In these new cameras, less pixels translates into better pictures in low light. (You might want to refer back to two Monday Notes on digital photography: Pixels Size vs. Number and More [...]

Edited by Jean-Louis Gassée | Posted in hardware | Comments (7)

More on sensors [digital photography]

May 3, 2009 – 5:47 pm

TweetIn the (now waning) days of analog photography, much was made of which film was best: Kodak’s Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Fuji’s, Konica, Agfa, Ferrania… to name but a few of the old standards. Today, a similar debate goes on regarding the altogether simpler digital sensors. In the April 5th Monday Note #80, I took a first [...]

Edited by Jean-Louis Gassée | Posted in hardware | Comments (4)

Pixels: Size vs. Number

April 5, 2009 – 9:52 am

TweetOMG, says the blogger, the next iPhone’s camera will have 3.2 million pixels instead of today’s measly 2 million! The blog entry gave me the final push for an occasional, meaning at irregular intervals, series of columns on digital photography. The idea is to find insights into what’s really going on in this very dynamic [...]

Edited by Jean-Louis Gassée | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (8)