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Rich wrote:
> 26-624mm equivalent and (of course) the ubiquitous, crappy 1/2.33" P&S
> sensor. Plus raw mode and 3200 ISO.

ISO 6400 for 3M or less, LOL.

> Can you even begin to imagine the noise in such an image?

Doesn't matter. There's clearly a market for people who don't care at
all about the quality of the image and are more concerned with having
the most megapixels, the widest range zoom, and the biggest LCD. Those
people are the legal prey of the manufacturers of this type of product.

Once you've got the tiny P&S sensor, you're already screwed except for
low-ISO in bright light. You might as well hang such a ridiculous lens
on it. Maybe the CA and vignetting will hide the noise.

Maybe the plan is to make a P&S so bad that the owner will want to buy a
Samsung D-SLR.

SMS <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Rich wrote:
>> 26-624mm equivalent and (of course) the ubiquitous, crappy 1/2.33" P&S
>> sensor. Plus raw mode and 3200 ISO.
>
>ISO 6400 for 3M or less, LOL.
>
>> Can you even begin to imagine the noise in such an image?
>
>Doesn't matter. There's clearly a market for people who don't care at
>all about the quality of the image and are more concerned with having
>the most megapixels, the widest range zoom, and the biggest LCD.

There isn't a person posting here who isn't willing to accept
compromises in image quality in order to get a camera that they
can use for an acceptable price. Some of them are arrogant snobs
who think that only their compromises are acceptable.

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Ray Fischer
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Ray Fischer wrote:

> There isn't a person posting here who isn't willing to accept
> compromises in image quality in order to get a camera that they
> can use for an acceptable price. Some of them are arrogant snobs
> who think that only their compromises are acceptable.

True. It's all a question of which compromises you're willing to make.

Still, advising people to avoid a camera with very high noise and a
crappy lens (ignoring for a while all the other issues) doesn't
necessarily make someone arrogant, nor a snob.