Digital Rivals Film at 1.2 megapixels

[Radtech1]

From PCWorld magazine, January 1998*

A couple of interesting highlights from an 11 year old perspective:

1) 1280 by 1064 "rivals" 35mm :shock:
2) Lower cost cameras - $250 to $500 - offer .3 to .5 megapixels :shock:
3) High end, non mobile, studio cameras can capture 4 megapixels :shock:

Anyone else have any "Oh my god, if they could see us now" references? I love this stuff, to see how times have changed.

Rad


*(Why I still have this around, I don't know - it might come in handy. And why my wife calles me a hoarder is beyond me. All this stuff is perfectly good! Anyone can see that.)

[toxic]

well, it does say "point-and-shoot" 35mm cameras, which most likely didn't carry professional film.

[apoyboy]

digital definitely has gotten better over the years, but film still rivals digital today in some cases. I still shoot BW film which is better IMO than digital no matter the MP count. I wish digital had the DR that film has then I wouldn't need a dark room in my house. I know, I know PP fixes everything.........

[ImRaptor]

I'd have to say that I think the article isn't that far off. I know I had some "P&S" cheapy 35mm cameras that we had back then and the shots were awful. I still have the memories but the picture quality was no where close to even my old Fuji S5200 digital camera let alone to my DSLRs I have now.
And looking back on it, I think even my old HP digital cam that was 3MP would easily beat the cheapo 35mm film cams in the right conditions.

But I'm talking the cheap of the cheap 35mm. You know the kind of cameras you could buy with pocket change? Those are the ones. We're not talking an actual camera like an AE1 or similar.

[Wilt]

Yeah and Bill Gates thought that 640k of RAM was all you would ever need...until his programmers started to write memory hogs for OS and applications.

[DStanic]

People can't pixel peep with P&S 35mm, the lenses are crap on them. P&S digital have to be halfway decent as people will view them on computer screens not just cheap 4x6 prints.

[toxic]

People can't pixel peep with P&S 35mm, the lenses are crap on them. P&S digital have to be halfway decent as people will view them on computer screens not just cheap 4x6 prints.

Computer screens have a much lower resolution than a 4x6 print.