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No way do I want to wait. I want the plain vanilla model they
introduced today! Yeah right!
--I'm pretty sure you might have a reason for waiting or not waiting.
The 7D is the camera I envisioned of getting: 6MP, Maxxum 7 body
and AS. The only caveat is I have to wait until September to get
one.
Some people said that by that time, Canon, Nikon and the others
would have caught up with Minolta's technology. Now why is that a
bad deal? For me competition amongst these camera mfgs. benefit us
the consumers----we get innovative products at reasonable prices.
For me, what could be bad-----shooting with slide and negative
films for the next 7 mos. with my Maxxum SLR. I mean have fun out
there and if you truly must have that DSLR, there are so many
options you can choose now and in the near future.
Happy clicking,
José
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http://www.pbase.com/jmb_56
David
I shoot people all the time–but I use cameras, not guns!
http://homepage.mac.com/david_g_force
I'm pretty sure KM will make a digital 9, not sure if it is slated for 2005 or 2006. I still think though that KM needs to position an entry-level DSLR to go against the 300D.
Ha ha ha ha. You are a funny man. Now I am beginning to lose my perception of you as a good engineer.
I should be asking you that! You trust your own data sheets? You trust your engineering prowess alone? So you do more R&D, right? But you are supposed to be producing the camera, not experimenting! So, you get delays. Unless you don't want to do testing and just run them up production. You are in a bind now, JK.
Really now? No wonder they bungled their 828. As the other brands come out with their own 8mp p&s, . And don't tell me it's the lens that's at fault, because either way, there is a problem. Is that 828 now a CCD or CMOS? You see how your plugging an 8mp, even if "strategically" planned can cause havoc? While you would just plug in an 8mp in midstream.
But you will act differently. You will proceed recklessly. Arrogantly even. That is the difference.
Yes. But here's a fact for you. With all these knowledge behind them, why, at this point in time do they have no dslr? Why does the mockup at the PMA not even shooting? Having knowledge and innovation is part of the solution. It does not guarantee successful product. It requires a good plan and execution of the entire value chain.
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Really now? Mwwwwwwaaaaahaha hahahaha (to create my own laugher a la Ulysses). A legend of a dslr which will go down in history!
That's not the point. We are talking dslrs here. Though you can use many technologies from film, the difficulties are higher than what you simply assume (this is why I am losing my respect for you as an engineer).
No big deal? OK, why haven't we seen one for the past 3 years? Why the end of the year forecast if it is "no big deal."
Of course not, but the others were not deal makers were they? Nobody fondly remembers them. Do a search on this forum on these models and see how many hits you get. I got 7 on "RD 3000" as a parameter. So, afaik, this dynax 7d is the first real commercial dslr.
But it is not, at least for larger sensors good for dslrs. You already know the reason why so I won't go into that. But if you do, why do you say it is a "piece of cake"?
You need to enroll in marketing or finance subject, man. You still have much to learn.
And you are deciding on the basis of technical basis only. Very dangerous. You would make a very weak operations mgr, or even team leader for a high tech co. if this is how you plan and execute.
Really? I was being cautious there. A dslr with 8mp at this point in time is going to be around U$3,200-4,500 (the D2h, 1D mkII e.g.). Even if you use a lesser AF it will still be knocking at U$2,500 conservatively. It will push many minoltan's to the d70, 10d, 300d, ist*d. As I said in my previous post, you would also not do well working for marketing or corporate planning.
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Thank you, Craig. I am not into this type of production. But my friends and classmates in grad school were (working for Intel, mitsubishi, ericcson, etc). My teacher in TQM is also a top mgr at a large semi con company here, so I know, even if I am not an engineer what it takes to produce something. We have also visited a manufacturing plant and seen for ourselves how things are manufactured and the problems involved. I also have 4 years experience in logistics mg't in Saudi Arabia working for the Saudi Ordnance under American standards, so logistics is a big thing for me.
Lucas,
--Ok seriously, this can't be that hard to figure out...
SD are now faster than CF cards, and just about the same price. I
know many of us have spent untold dollars on CF cards, so make
everyone happy. Put in a dual-slot SD/CF card reader in this baby.
Its not like there isn't enough room...SD readers are so tiny to
start with, then couple it to the CF card reader, and you wouldn't
even know it was there. Anybody complaining because they have the
freedom to choose which cards to use?
Ok, so then lets give them 1 more thing...lets give the camera the
ability to write to both cards simultaneously. I know it would
take a bit more processing power, and some unique architecture, but
its surely not out of our reach. This should basically be enough
to shoot at a rate of 15 mb/s, and assuming we get a buffer of say,
512 mb (cmon, I'm willing to pay for it), you could basically shoot
as many shots in a row as you like.
Lets see...
flow into buffer = 6 frames/second * 8 mb/raw frame = 48 mb/s
flow out of buffer = 10 mb/s (SD card) + 6 mb/s (CF card) = 16 mb/s
total flow of buffer = (48 - 16) mb/s = 32 mb/s
512 mb/(32 mb/s) = 16 seconds of continuous 6fps raw shooting = 96
frames.
96 frames * 8 mb = 768 mb
sooooo, if you have 1 512 pro CF card, and 1 512 high speed SD
card, and the ability to write to both at their capacities, you can
damn near shoot 100 frames of raw, at an amazing rate of 6 mb/s.
Anyone else like this idea? I know, I know, you are wasting huge
amounts of memory in seconds, and obviously, after this 16 secound
burst, your camera is going to be writing for a long time, but who
cares, you just cought 100 shots during a single play of the
football game...and thats a long play, if I might add. Now, to go
back and delete all the useless ones....well, thats a whole nother
issue.
How sweet would it be to be able to shoot 6 fps for 16 seconds????
I don't think many pro action photographers would be using Nikon
and Canon for long
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-Matt
http://www.pbase.com/ph0t0man
OK. I'll grant you are right on this. But you would still test it because you made changes, right? You might even have to re-order a different AA filter because of you now have a different pixel count.
OK. You know. What can I say? But you have not tested it, and what if your tests shows you have to ORDER different other parts because of variations in test results that would make QC fail? You always seem to assume too that the parts are just ready for you to take, as if you just go to a hardware store and order a nut and bult and get one. If you are planning to produce 30,000 units of this in a month, you need to order this in advance. So, you will be delayed again, not to mention that Finance is not going to be happy with what you want.
Having options open is different from being able to execute those options. Even if you have unlimited coffers, if your supplier says that we don't have those parts, you're screwed.
No. But I go back to supply chain mgt. and I go back to the fact that they designed it right as it is and executed it within bounds as is. They didn't plug in a 10mp in when their charts shows it should be a 8mp, just because 10mp just suddenly became available. Or maybe it was not available. And it was not available because you have to order it in advance. And even if it was, it was not in the specs/plans to build a 10mp A2 at this time.
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I meant to say that it WOULD NOT take major reconstructive surgery to pop in a better sensor.
