Pre-PMA Canon and FujiFilm announcement roundup

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dunk @ Feb 22nd 2007 10:25AM

why-oh-why can't camera manufacturers just make a good looking, pocket camera that supports RAW, has an ISO of at least 2000 and an optical zoom of 5x? it seems the better the picture quality the uglier the camera body and you don't start getting RAW support until start forking over $500+ bucks. i'm not a good enough photog to justify the expense.

i know RAW isn't the be-all-end-all of digital photograpy, but after teaching a class on compression algorithms my eyes are finely attuned to the flaws in DCT compression

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Craig @ Feb 22nd 2007 2:06PM

I can tell you why Canon doesn't -- they want you to buy both a compact P&S and a larger SLR-type model. If they put too many features into one camera, too many consumers would be satisfied with buying just one camera. There are many manual controls that are essentially software-based that Canon doesn't put into its SD series, such as exposure control & flash strength.

That's why I think Canon dropped RAW in the S series and then axed the line altogether -- it had too many good elements (including size) to satisfy the average prosumer in one camera.

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