Modern Cameras

[Photofarmer]

Remembering back to “beginners” cameras back in 1980s compared to now say RP lots of difference.
Or another way a R or RP would have been semi professional camera back then.
Think my brother might have my Pentax from early 90s as well probably gathering dust and stuffed.
And remember the excitement when you got your photos back usually 10ish wait I live in country.
Now tis instant.
Ah progress

 

[Kerro]

Remembering back to “beginners” cameras back in 1980s compared to now say RP lots of difference.
Or another way a R or RP would have been semi professional camera back then.
Think my brother might have my Pentax from early 90s as well probably gathering dust and stuffed.
And remember the excitement when you got your photos back usually 10ish wait I live in country.
Now tis instant.
Ah progress

I still have most of my point and shoot cameras from the '80's except one that I ran over with an excavator, along with my lunch. I did manage to save the SD card though.

 

[Photofarmer]

What about your lunch?

 

[Kerro]

What about your lunch?

Peter, I ran over my lunch as well. I had my back pack on the tracks and spun around and tracked backwards and didn't realize I'd run over it until I had backed right away from it. I wouldn't have minded but the camera was a 20mp Nikon point and shoot that I bought at Philadelphia Airport

 

[dmanthree]

Remembering back to “beginners” cameras back in 1980s compared to now say RP lots of difference.
Or another way a R or RP would have been semi professional camera back then.
Think my brother might have my Pentax from early 90s as well probably gathering dust and stuffed.
And remember the excitement when you got your photos back usually 10ish wait I live in country.
Now tis instant.
Ah progress

I was in a "pro" camera store quite a while ago, and they had a Nikon that had 2.7MP. There were some decent size prints on display from the cam, and the salesman told me that the tech had pretty much "topped out." And that nobody needed more than 2.7MP.

Happy to say he was a little off.

 

[Dean Wilson]

Technically not much differences between my EOS R and Pentax P3n (P30N), although batteries are harder to find, they don't draw as much power as the EOS R.

 

[Photofarmer]

Topped out for hobbyists I agree I’m never gonna need more than R5 if I owned one and doubt I will 6 and rp does me just fine. Glass on the other hand has it topped out no idea

 

[Kerro]

Topped out for hobbyists I agree I’m never gonna need more than R5 if I owned one and doubt I will 6 and rp does me just fine. Glass on the other hand has it topped out no idea

Same here, my R5 is my end of life camera along with all the lenses I have.

 

[dmanthree]

Same here, my R5 is my end of life camera along with all the lenses I have.

I feel the same way. I haven't pushed the boundaries of the R5 yet, so all good here. Can't imagine what the "II" might have that could possibly tempt me.

 

[MikeZ]

I also agree, and wonder what else camera manufacturers can add to their product that will make a difference for the non-professional. For me, my R5 offers more features than I think I will every use so "upgrading" makes little sense.

 

[dmanthree]

I also agree, and wonder what else camera manufacturers can add to their product that will make a difference for the non-professional. For me, my R5 offers more features than I think I will every use so "upgrading" makes little sense.

Yeah, but glass? Well...that's another matter. ;-)

 

[Photofarmer]

Yeah, but glass? Well...that's another matter. ;-)

the 200/800 might be a great fit for many possibly between consumer and pro??

 

[dmanthree]

the 200/800 might be a great fit for many possibly between consumer and pro??

I've already got the 100-500 plus the 1.4TC, so I'm set.

 

[JoeTheSnowPlowGuy]

I was in a "pro" camera store quite a while ago, and they had a Nikon that had 2.7MP. There were some decent size prints on display from the cam, and the salesman told me that the tech had pretty much "topped out." And that nobody needed more than 2.7MP.

Happy to say he was a little off.

An argument could probably be made that no one needs more than 8-10 megapixels since the majority of photographic consumption is on digital screens that could never reproduce an image pixel for pixel…

 

[dmanthree]

An argument could probably be made that no one needs more than 8-10 megapixels since the majority of photographic consumption is on digital screens that could never reproduce an image pixel for pixel…

My monitor and all TVs I have can show 5K images. Way more than 8-10MP. Just me, I guess.

 

[JoeTheSnowPlowGuy]

My monitor and all TVs I have can show 5K images. Way more than 8-10MP. Just me, I guess.

The vast majority of monitors and screens top out at 4k resolution. I suppose you could push the maximum needed out to 16 megapixels, but I think 10 megapixels would cover 99% of all digital consumption. Say 12 megapixels to split the difference.

I think digital consumption as the majority of end user use is why we’re seeing Canon and Nikon focus their latest and greatest sensor technologies into 24 megapixels. Aside from the ability to crop in post and niche uses like fashion, is anything more really needed?

 

[dmanthree]

The vast majority of monitors and screens top out at 4k resolution. I suppose you could push the maximum needed out to 16 megapixels, but I think 10 megapixels would cover 99% of all digital consumption. Say 12 megapixels to split the difference.

I think digital consumption as the majority of end user use is why we’re seeing Canon and Nikon focus their latest and greatest sensor technologies into 24 megapixels. Aside from the ability to crop in post and niche uses like fashion, is anything more really needed?

It depends. I print, so having 45MP is really, really nice. If all you do is present your shots via the web, hell, 10MP is overkill.