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griffin said:
So Bill.....little (6'4") Grif just asked me, "where does photography go from here? That looks real, and you can't get better than real".

It's a legitimate question, right? How in the world could pictures get more detail in them than cameras can get now?

That's crazy.

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Scott

The camera I use is 4 generations old and is 8 megapixel and can shoot at 8 frames a second. I bought it used when it was only 1 generation behind top of the heap.

Equivalent Canon camera today is 18 megapixel and shoots at 12 frames a second-- major engineering feat. Next step "down" is 22 megapixel. I've seen the files produced by these cameras and they are unbelievable in detail. The sensors can shoot in low light-- one friend showed me a shot of a mountain in moonlight that was phenomenal--detail like it was almost full light

Many of the landscape shooters are shooting Nikons that have 36 megapixel files

Canon just came out with two 50 megapixel cameras for landscape and studio work. Sample files shown looked great.

Where are they going????

The human eye is estimated to see around 20 stops of light
Newer digital cameras might get to 11 stops-- old ones had about 5 to 7 stops of light range-- that seems to be one of the directions
The higher the range the more detail can be discerned in low light and in the shadows/highlights in bright light
it also lets wildlife/sports/action photographers to shoot at higher shutter speeds in poor light situations like high school football-- duck blinds--deer stands etc

The old megapixel wars probably will start again--even your off the rack point and shoot cameras have more resolution than my camera. 50 megapixel files....huge computer processing but you could probably print a photo that could cover the wall in your family room with detail that would stand up to close scrutiny

pictures saved to the web can't show all the resolution/detail that most digital cameras capture--even my old camera has more resolution --

but being able to print large photos from high resolution cameras is the real test




They are also developing mirror-less cameras (smaller,lighter,high resolution with side by side video etc that may displace DSLR's like my camera-- right now they have some limitations.

Most new DSLR's have high quality video capability as well.
I have been told that the day of the still image is over and if I was smart, I'd get into video--learn to do the processing and audio and all that jazz

Maybe but hell, i do not want to work that hard

Honestly.......I don't know where they are going but it will be interesting.... I guess

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