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- From: hasker@cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Hasker)
- Subject: Re: Camera Feature Wars - Photo Getting Like Video
- Message-ID: <BxvI5s.L8r@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <27595@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:32:16 GMT
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- goldberg@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Goldberg) writes:
-
- > The camera makers are trying to capitalize
- >on the new-better-newer cycle. witha flood of new models and updates.
- >I believe that the newer models, like the N90, really do sport exciting
- >new features. But the cost of constantly updating the equipment may
- >become a big factor in photography, as it has been in video.
-
- This "latest-feature" craze has been around for a lot longer than
- video. In the '70's, it became fashionable for 35mm cameras to have
- auto-exposure. At first the exposure systems were either
- shutter-priority or aperature-priority, then in the late '70s (back in
- the dark ages when many people still didn't own a VCR), Canon
- introduced the A-1 with both sp & ap modes plus a program mode. Well,
- a number of other manufacturers jumped on the bandwagon, and soon every
- new camera on the market introduced new sorts of program modes and AE
- features (such as backlight compensation). The history of photography
- is litered with hundreds of such innovations.
-
- I think we can safely say that the video people copied this marketing
- strategy from still photography, not the other way around.
-
- Rob
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