oh! I was talking to someone at steampunk about this last night
I was going to look them up.

I tell you what, it's fucked up. I shall read more - I think my job might change in the next few decades
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 19:15, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

When someone on your course (the arty one, not the forrensic one) submits an Instagram url for an end of term project, it's then that you need to reasses your position.
Did you also hear about the 41mpx nokia smartphone? And no, that's not a typo.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 19:26, Reply)

Well we already do stuff
with old cameras, liquid light, etc. to make stuff look old. There's a vague limit on filter stuff, since most filters are shit and just cover for bad photography. Also, I hate HDR.

That 41mp thing? Not sure why they bothered, if the lens is still small and shit and the CCD is titchy, it's just a marketing/wanky gadget thing
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 19:29, Reply)

the 41mp thing is horseshit.
they might as well have stopped at about 2mp for all the difference it makes to the quality of pictures you take on a phone. s'all about the lens and the sensor, baby.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 19:32, Reply)

*To both replies*
Yeah', I know, totally agree. The eye can only see so much detail (I *think* it's like around 330dpi, as best as they can guess such a thing), and unless you're blowing up the image to the size of a building, it's pointless. Even more so when only viewed on a screen, such as on a website. Plus I can't even imagine what the filesizes are.

However, I've just had a thought, using it to create a digital zoom (as in, a 41mpx at 1x zoom, you could grab 30mpx of that and it would be like a #x zoom.).... so it's not as bullshitty as first thought.

But yeah', CCD and lens is where it's at. Is it me, or has Carl Zuse gone shit for mobile phone cams these days? My Lumia 800 is a shit camera, but the last one I had years ago on a SE phone was ace at the time.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 19:51, Reply)