(keitai-l) Re: keitais killing digital consumer cameras (Ore more) softly

From: Eric Hildum <EricHildum_at_earthlink.net>
Date: 12/19/03
Message-Id: <4512B9C8-3239-11D8-B480-000393850E56@earthlink.net>
You can put a high quality lens, but you still have a form factor and 
physics issue. Good cameras have a much larger lens to gather more 
light allowing the use of a slower film. This is even more important in 
digital cameras, where emulating a fast film injects a lot of noise 
into an image. Thus, there is no way a keitai image can match the 
quality of a standard digital camera or regular camera unless there is 
a larger lens (or a major change in the sensing devices).


On Dec 19, 2003, at 1:33 AM, Curt Sampson wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Giovanni Bertani wrote:
>
>>> Low-end consumer cameras won't be killed until keitai come with a
>>> decent flash. Current keitai are fairly useless in low-light 
>>> situations.
>>
>> I agree with you. Flash and better lenses. But is this something
>> difficult to put in a Keitai?
>
> The better lenses are already here. I've seen prints of stuff from the
> D505iS that show what it's capable of, and it's pretty impressive.
> (Admittedly these were prints created by the manufacturer, but they did
> claim that they were really taken with that camera, so....)
>
> Flash: I'm not sure why we can't do it now. My keitai has a 3.6V 700 
> mAh
> battery; my camera (Casio Exlim) a 3.6V 680 mAh battery. The latter is
> slightly smaller and slightly heavier. The camera's good for about 
> 60-70
> flash shots; so it seems we've got battery technology good enough for a
> flash.
>
> cjs
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Received on Fri Dec 19 17:40:39 2003