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Image Quality: Is newer better?

Started Dec 2, 2012 | Discussions thread
Daniel Lauring
Daniel Lauring Veteran Member • Posts: 9,346
Re: Image Quality: Is newer better?

For a real eye opener I found an old Nikon 950 I still had and tried to use it a few years ago...OMG!!!  Slow as molasses start up.  Focus hunting.  Shutter lag.  Over sharpened jpegs with poor color.  Horrible shutter lag.  Yet, when I had that camera I loved it.

Certainly there have been periods where cameras have not dramatically gotten better...or even got worse a following generation, like when consumers and manufacturers chased megapixels or when manufacturers release a cost reduced model, but overall, there has been a HUGE improvement in the capability of these cameras.

Sensors have gotten better...much better in low light.

Optics have gotten better with computer designs and special coatings.

Processors have gotten faster and algorithms smarter yielding better focus lock speeds and features like smart focus that will recognize and eye and get perfect focus on it.

Personally, I'm loving what manufacturers are doing with smaller formats.  I was photographing less and less because I got weary of hauling all that heavy equipment around.  I've rediscovered it again, with cameras that can fit in my coat pocket.

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