Re: Future of digital slr's

Adrian Boliston offered these thoughts for the group's
consideration of the matter at hand:


.... I figure we will also see a very big change in lenses as
more of the work is done at the sensor level....

I would have thought that lenses are the things we will see
*least* change, as they are just bit of glass the bend light
rays and not really "high tech" in the way that a body is.
Most high end lenses seem to have been released 5-10 years
ago, with mainly just consumer/kit lenses having been released
more recently.

Compared to the way that lenses were designed when I was using a
circa 1969 Nikon Photomic FTN, I would say that astounding advances
have been made using CAD technology. Zoom lenses were both
expensive and of pretty dismal quality in my film days, and today
even inexpensive P & S cameras have reasonably good lenses. Still,
there will always be a compromise across the broad spectrum of
design criteria for a new camera model, given that "the more mega
pixels the better" is so pervasive that it literally consumes the
marketing of all digitals these days, and I would think causes some
bizarre less-than-optimum compromises in lens, sensor, and image
processing hardware/software by camera makers in order to bring a
new model in at its cost and price targets.

--
HP, aka Jerry
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