The best camera on the market right now is the Nikon D700 and the models above that. You will barely need to use a tripod again the low light performance is outstanding.
You can do great camera comparisons here...
http://www.dxomark.com/index.php
Yani said:The best camera on the market right now is the Nikon D700 and the models above that. You will barely need to use a tripod again the low light performance is outstanding.
Yep.
Also check www.kenrockwell.com for everything Nikon. I have a D50 and I love it. If you care, add a 50mm 1.8f lens, but the kit lenses at 18-55 are great.
Besides the refractive index of glass?
It is all designed for a reason. You can buy cameras which use LCDs in place of a mirror and a prism. That has some design advantages and I'd love to be able to swap my prism for an LCD in certain circumstances but they are unpleasant if you need to manually focus.
You can make small high resolution sensors but for the same number of pixels they currently have a lot more noise.
You can make lenses with small apertures at smaller sizes but they won't allow you to take images with low depth of field.
If there was a potential revolutionary aspect to lens design, the competition is such that it would be out there now.
Hi Yani,
I used to play around with long exposures with torches back in the 80's when shooting film. I will have to buy a decent torch as I only have a couple of those small $5 torches at the moment and they hardly light anything up. It will be a whole new learning game again as I can't remember what settings I used and how long I lit any given area for way back then. I might start off small with some indoor subjects.
I would love to see a couple of your torch images,
Best regards,Brian.
Set me an assignment, and not 'your desk' GAWD I'd have to clean up. Most of the stuff I have here is boring muck done for clients. A $5 touch is perfect. LED ones aren't always great they can have a bit of color shift, mine is white in the centre and a bit green to the edges.
http://www.gizmag.com/liquid-pistons-for-mobile-phone-cameras/17559/
Liquid lenses...
Researchers at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute have developed "liquid pistons" that could be suited to a variety of applications. Using electromagnets the liquid pistons, which are highly tunable, scalable and have no solid moving parts, can function as pumps for lab-on-a-chip systems or could be used for adaptive lenses in future mobile phone cameras and implantable lenses.
several years back an Australian inventor came out with a lens that had virtually infinite depth of field. There was a special on this on TV, but I missed it. In the commercial advertising the show they showed a macro image taken ...... shot between the legs of a spider and the spider was in sharp focus, as was everything else in the room you could see between the spider's legs.
I never heard anything more after that. Did you see the show and do you know anything about this?
Yes I remember that. I think that was pre web so no doubt hard to find. It might have been that it used multiple small apertures. I have some vague memory of talk about it being like a fly's eye.
http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=004Hcm
There is a discussion on the above but it is pretty vague.