I'm not denying that there is an appropriate place to use percentages. It is especially useful in apples to apples comparisons. I'm just saying that comparing APS-C to full frame AND to a completely different era is apples to oranges, in my book.
To go back to Mark's numbers, he's saying a 27% increase is insignificant except from a marketing standpoint. The new K-S1 is a 25% increase in megapixels over the past several years' 16MP models. Even ignoring the other technology improvements along the way, I think that 25% is a pretty significant increase. I can make is sound smaller by terming it a 1.25 "factor" if I want to minimize it. Feel free to disagree, but that's my opinion. I think that we may just be spoiled by seeing the flagship go up 50% from 16MP to 24MP. That's partly due to the disruption caused by no (really) new DSLR models during the Hoya to Ricoh transition. On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 11, 2014, at 8:23 AM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That's a funny way of looking at it. First of all, almost all change >> is incremental, but that doesn't mean it is insignifcant. If reducing >> things to percentage increase was a valid way of comparing things, >> then someone who went from bench pressing 460 lbs from 360 lbs >> shouldn't be any prouder of the accomplishment than someone who went >> from 60 lbs to 76 lbs. It's just a funny way to make comparisons, >> unless you are trying to purposely minimize accomplishment. > > I’ll leave aside Mark’s point, I don’t know enough to agree or disagree. But > Darren, your notion of percentages as a bad thing is just wrong. > > Lets say I earn $100 an hour. Then I get a $100 raise, am now earning $200 an > hour. > You are earning $1000 an hour, and then you also get a $100 raise. So you are > at $1100 an hour. > > We both get an added $100 an hour, but my increase was 100%, yours was only > 10%. Don’t you think that percentages better reflect the perceived value in > this case? Ask the buyer of a new $20,000 car how important a $2000 discount > would be. Ask the buyer of a new $100,000 car how important a $2000 discount > would be. > > There is a long history of trying to use numbers in various forms to > represent perceived value of one sort or another. Most systems fall apart > because our underlying value systems are not linear and cannot be fairly > represented with a simple linear scale. Percentages do a pretty good job > capturing some of that underlying non-linearity and I think Mark’s usage > helps to provide a valid alternative perspective on this "breaking news”. Log > scales can be another useful tool… > > stan > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
