ljfinger

No it's not! Problem is, to you, "confirmed" means taking your time machine and your camcorder back and recording the event.  In the real world, that is not required. No, but a deeper...

You don't think parents shooting shots of their kids around the house is "general"? I have a lot of shots of my kids that couldn't be taken without really fast low-light gear that I would have...

It's for shooting sports at night, where light is low and the shutter speeds need to be very fast.

Who cares as that's irrelevant. Compact film cameras always outsold film SLRs. I'm not even close to happy with what I get out of my Galaxy S3.  It's not even close to what I get out of my...

I'm also assuming you need aperture, and that having a 3"-6" diameter circle isn't going to cut it for the form factor of the modern cell phone.  And, don't forget that even if you do, you're going...

The signal-to-noise ratio in a photo is roughly quantum efficiency * sqrt(photons captured).  QE can't be higher than 1.0, by definition, and it's already over 0.5 in modern sensors.  The number of...

Then why are you on this site? It will be profitable as long as people buy stuff. An interesting anecdote.  A while back, I found out that high-end audio gear was responsible for less than 5% of...

As there were with 110s and so on.  So? By "not all that long ago", you mean about 12-15 years. Crappy afocal lenses that cover a very limited range and defeat the "camera's" form factor.  They...

The profiles are extremely flexible. I know so. Most of what it done on Bayer sensors is just calibration.

You're killing me here!

DNG can include color profiles enabling raw conversion without first profiling a camera. This is how Leica was able to release a camera that had instant support in Lightroom and Camera Raw without...

They were wrong then, and now.  But that's not the same thing - film had low quantum efficiency, and it was inflexible, expensive and slow.  That was never true of digital and even those saying...

Smart phones are just the latest version of the 110 film camera, the Kodak disc camera, the Polaroid one-step, 35mm compact cameras, and the early compact digitals.  They're for people to have who...

I suppose. He's trustworthy. No, that's the wrong approach.  We need multiple competitors to avoid stagnation.  What we need is a common raw format (DNG) and common baked formats (JPEG/TIFF) that...

We're equally underwhelmed by your evidence of a divine entity's existence and of any visit from such an entity to our planet. Only if you're incapable of deductive reasoning. So, you can't...

Who is "they"? Despite a specific statement to the contrary by the product manager... I think the current approach of each company providing their own processing software to be nuts.  It's...

The camera manufacturers have had every opportunity to do that now using the free and open DNG specification, yet only a handful (Pentax, Leica, can't remember the others) have availed themselves...

Some of this code is extremely complex and would require millions of man hours to reproduce (think Camera Raw and the hundreds of cameras it supports). It's unnecessary. TIF can store everything...

This lens wouldn't fix that.  Two bodies, one with a 400/2.8 and one with a 70-200/2.8 is still a whole stop faster and a whole lot more flexible overall, especially when the action gets close.

It's not just the grip. It's the placement of the controls and the lens too (I find my 70-200 is my easiest lens to use). Further, small cameras universally have small, lousy grips.--Lee Jay(see...