Re: Looking for a Wireless Video Camera

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:19:56 GMT, John Navas
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:34:37 -0700, Jeff Liebermann
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George <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hath wroth:

Yet they don't hesitate going to "barginfinder.com" to buy electronic
gear thinking they somehow "you get what you pay for" doesn't apply.

That's because they don't understand (or don't want to understand) the
underlying technology.

I think it's more because they assume technical products are a
commodity. That's because no technical product vendor has done a decent
job of product differentiation. People are willing to pay more (much
more) when they perceive a product to be better, even when they don't
understand why, and even when the products aren't actually better.
Cases in point: Bose Wave Radio. Monster cable.

Agreed on all points. Radio is magic and magic sells. Electronics is
art, and making the package artsy also sells. Acronyms and standards
are great. Every company should have one (or more). Model numbers
are like money, the bigger the better, and large or long model numbers
sells. Add a few hyphens and it's even longer.

I really like the technobabble behind Monster Cable products. I don't
think I understand any of it. However, that's small potatoes compared
to the vendors that cater to the audiophiles. Think $400 power
cables.
<http://www.audioadvisor.com/products.asp?dept=25>

My crystal ball and Ouigi Board both predict a grand future in selling
technology using technobabble, hype, and methods commonly found among
used vehicle salesmen. The current muddle over HDTV standards is the
current example. Some day, the IEEE will approve the multitude of
standards that they've been working on and we have even more muddle.

Product differention? You must mean do you want it in black, gray,
beige, or fire engine red. Yeah, I can see the difference between
products easily. This one, with the antenna that's twice as long,
must be twice as good. The one with 4 antennas must be 4 times
better.

Under ideal conditions, a cheap camera works well enough.

Actually not -- a crap lens gives crap results. I can easily
demonstrate the real difference between a cheap camera and a good
camera, even under ideal conditions. For example, I recently took a
portrait with my Leica lens, and the subject was literally blown away
when he saw how sharp it was. "My God! I can actually see each and
every hair in my beard!"

Ok, I'll concede the point. I used to own a Leica IIIc with a fairly
complete set of screw on lenses. I would take a roll of 35mm film,
shoot the first few frames in the Leica, rewind, move the film cart to
a commodity SLR camera, skip forward, and shoot the rest of the roll
of roughly the same subject matter, with the same lighting. When
developed, the image quality was very easy to compare without any
subtle differences created by processing. Yeah, if you know what to
look for, quality is obvious.

However, if you ignore the very bottom of the market in cameras, it
becomes more difficult to differentiate the quality of some of the
more expensive imagers. Each tends to have one or two areas in which
they are superior, at the expense of others. For example, I've seen
low light cameras that have impressive sensitivity, but look awful in
normal lighting. Go even higher in quality, and the products tend to
become special purpose. I guess the moral is to know the technology
before buying.


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