On Sat., Apr. 17, 2021, 2:04 p.m. Juan Buhler, <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 6:57 AM Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > And of course we have phones with 11 megapixel sensors, shake reduction, > > RAW capability, panorama and portrait modes and more. They’re making > small > > cameras obsolete. > > > > I'd say they all but killed them already. The one leftover reason is the > tactile experience of using a camera that is actually a camera and not a > touch device. I love that, but the convenience of using one device for so > many things so big that those quaint reasons aren't enough. > > Think about this: even a high end compact from say 2005-2006, at 8 MP or so > and with a small sensor makes a lot worse images than the better modern > smartphones. > My old Huawei P20 Pro outperformed my 1st generation Q. My wife's iPhone 11 outperforms my old P20 Pro, and as an aside, the camera in my Note 10 plus. The Q was an odd camera. There really wasn't a market for it even when it was fresh on the market other than the Japanese teenage girl brigade and nutbars like myself that will buy pretty much anything that takes pictures and has the name Pentax on it. The teenage girls have long since moved on to cell phones. It was a clumsy size, not big enough to be a real camera, but too big to be an easily pocketable point and shoot if the standard zoom lens was on it. Even with the standard lens it was kind of thick. They should have made a retractable lens for it, but that would have been throwing money out the window. It did punch above its weight regarding image quality, but this was negated by it's slowness. It was kind if cool with the standard lens and clip on viewfinder. I never came to like cameras that don't have viewfinders. The compact camera market is pretty much done, I suspect the bridge market isn't far behind. The future of cameras is expensive higher end products with sufficient separation from cell phones that it will be a while before they catch up. Hence the 2k APS-C camera with a real optical viewfinder. bill > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
