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Cameras That Dazzle, and Dismay
Stuart Goldenberg
By DAVID POGUE
Published: October 14, 2009
There are celebrations when a war ends, but sometimes confusion, too.
The...
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Link : http://www.
nytimes.
com/2009/10/15/technology/personaltech/15pogue.
html?_r=1
Cameras That Dazzle, and Dismay
Stuart Goldenberg
By DAVID POGUE
Published: October 14, 2009
There are celebrations when a war ends, but sometimes confusion, too.
The sense of
purpose, the unifying morale lift, maybe even the economic boost, are over.
That was certainly the case during the Great Megapixel Wars of 1996-2007.
During these
years, the world’s camera companies fought doggedly for our hearts and minds, using
megapixel count as a weapon.
“Ours takes 6 megapixel photos!” “Ours takes 8!” And we
marched to their orders, buying a new camera every other year just to keep up.
Now that that war has ended (the megapixel race has pretty much stopped at around 12)
the camera companies find themselves flailing for new sales points.
Cameras these days
have more bells and whistles than a marching band: image stabilizers, superlong zooms,
hi-def video, waterproof cases, face recognition, smile detec
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