When thinking of how the camera has enhanced our lives that has to be our resolution. The detail and the tonality of what we can see in pictures is boggling. Just in the past 70 or so years has color been readily available to the general public to widely use thanks to Kodak. And for those who are part of my generation that was born in the 1980's, the first production digital image sensors came out in the 90's when we were in elementary school! My uncle was one of those guys who had to have the latest camera and he had a Canon early model digital still camera that was well over $500 when we can get that EXACT technology for less than 20 bucks. In professional camera of the early 90's was over 1800 for just 1 measly megapixel of resolution from Nikon's first practical DSLR in 1999 that was 2.7mp for no less than $5000!!! Nikon has some huge milestones but now Canon is its biggest competitor and for a semi professional Canon 5D MKII is $2900 for 24 megapixel resolution bringing it to around $120 in 2010. From limited film laced with silver to ridiculous sensors teamed up with glass to take a picture of a moon billions of miles away, if baffles the mind!!
But with all this technology what happens if it is taken way too far? Cameras can soon have a sensor that is 30 megapixles and is affordable for the masses. Teamed up with a wide angle lens made out of glass that creates images so sharp you can shave with it, that would mean you can have a picture well beyond the size of an a door and make out almost anything in that photograph! If one of my photography friends who do this for a living sell a photograph of a model in a city and there are people behind them too an add agency, theoretically it could mean that the people behind that model although out of focus, with an image that large you can really enhance it to find out who they look like. Then their mug will be all over a billboard and someone might get offended and sue my friend because their face is now part of a lingerie add, done outside, as a evocative add, and some poor soul who are sensitive was captured and digitized and distributed in a magazine across the world. If not that, military forces have really cool lens optics that can render your licence plate from orbit, now what do you say to that?!
What it makes obsolete is film cameras. Although still used today and has it place, digital makes photography more economical. If you cant grasp that, imagine you being a cool photographer taking a bunch of shots of something you totally love to make some real money with a film camera! So cool and old school, when it comes to developing those rolls of film, they can be out of focus, lighting was all wrong, but you didn't know that because you film camera does not have a screen to tell you so! And if you have a digital camera, you theoretically have unlimited film! Don't like the shot? Delete it and retake it with different settings. Those features alone are worth thousands to photographers to get that shot to pay the rent.
What that retrieves to make relevant again is a pictogram. They are anything from cave drawings, or sand on the floor of that cave moved around to where you step back to get the full resolution of the image it speaks to you. The film camera to eventually the Digital SLR is a modern tool to make a better pictogram to share history with others.
So with that said, I love this camera. Maybe someday I will be doing a job that has to deal with pictures like my idea to go into communications and showing images, or being a X-Ray Technologist and taking pictures of peoples bones and organs; that is way cool for your information. Only time will tell, but I hope that comes soon because my camera hobby is expensive, even if my Canon 7D's 18mp sensor is good value for money compared with the early Nikon of the 90's!
Here is a picture of one of my rabbits in my yard after the rain passed:
Good analysis. Cute bunny.
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