03-19-2015, 10:45 AM
@popo, these are "Ironman" phantasms, throwing a smartphone somewhere and then reconstruct the whole scene including traces of gunpowder. At a certain point we're making ourselves meaningless, when OSs start to chat with each other. Actually, we do have enough problems to solve inour world without the need of documenting them in 3D and accessible ineach magnification at each point, oh, and of course, X-rayed, too.
I would not say a Foveon is a minor variation and I think you don't have any experience with that kind of sensor. But I understand people seeing Foveons only as minor vraiation because I did the same before I made my first pictures with them. To me, they are innovative - more MP, bigger size but business as usual Bayer pattern are no innovation. Sorry Felix, a 4×5" sensor would deliver at 5 µm pixelpitch: 20320 × 25400 = 516.128 MP, so something between 1.5 and 2 GB data - per picture. Looks like eceryday purpose, doesn't it?
Innovation is not "more", "higher", "bigger" - that's evolution. Innovation is doing things totally different. Of course, one can discuss a lot if touchscreens are innovation to buttons. I think they are. I can imagine of some improvements, most of them are no innovations.
Someone talked about Apple. I think they are an interesting example when a company looses heart and brain for inovations, Stepping into ordinary IT business is painful for users used to get a couple of pleasant surprises each year.
I would not say a Foveon is a minor variation and I think you don't have any experience with that kind of sensor. But I understand people seeing Foveons only as minor vraiation because I did the same before I made my first pictures with them. To me, they are innovative - more MP, bigger size but business as usual Bayer pattern are no innovation. Sorry Felix, a 4×5" sensor would deliver at 5 µm pixelpitch: 20320 × 25400 = 516.128 MP, so something between 1.5 and 2 GB data - per picture. Looks like eceryday purpose, doesn't it?
Innovation is not "more", "higher", "bigger" - that's evolution. Innovation is doing things totally different. Of course, one can discuss a lot if touchscreens are innovation to buttons. I think they are. I can imagine of some improvements, most of them are no innovations.
- For cameras with mirrors and indirect AF module I like to see calibration of each lens automatically and at certain distances and various zoom positions.
- DoF via focusstacking in camera, just like articfiially increasing the physical pixel count.
- clock calibration, when there's GPS inside
- camera-bottom in shape of Arca-Swiss profile
- Cameratype with squarish sensor proportion - we're cropping anyway
- LiveView to a tablet or smartphone with better HR screen without a big hardware fuss or crappy remote software. See PhaseOne.
- Exchangeable sensors: High ISO, High resolution, Monochrome. See PhaseOne
Someone talked about Apple. I think they are an interesting example when a company looses heart and brain for inovations, Stepping into ordinary IT business is painful for users used to get a couple of pleasant surprises each year.