(keitai-l) Re: Samsung working on 5.0 megapixel camera phones

From: Darren Luckett <darren_at_ukmedia.us>
Date: 05/13/04
Message-ID: <LPBBINBCDFCAKCCLENFLGEKKCBAA.darren@ukmedia.us>
the n900i is good (2.2mg) but the picure still looks a bit digital

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> From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net 
> [mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net]On Behalf Of nick may
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 12:06 PM
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Samsung working on 5.0 megapixel camera phones
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> On May 13, 2004, at 3:05 AM, keitai-l@appelsiini.net wrote:
> 
> > (1) whoa! 5.0 mega-pixels
> 
> Adding more pixels is easy. (For non-trivial values of easy, 
> admittedly...)
> 
> But producing a LENS system to justify it, and give a decent image - 
> that's hard.
> 
> The Canon Kiss/Rebel uses canon SLR lenses and just about produces a 
> decent image.
> 
> Camera-phones? Pha! - they outgrew their lenses months ago. There 
> really is a physical size limitation here. Some things can be "Uncle 
> Clive'd" - made smaller and smaller and smaller. Memory, cpus, power 
> supplies, megapixelage of a sensor on a given size... Others reach a 
> limiting size : Keyboards, screens and lenses being three.
> 
> The ONLY thing that counts is final image quality. Advertising 
> megapixelage is like advertising megaherz on a CPU - only the most 
> naive care - it's the balanced SYSTEM that counts.
> 
> With that in mind, which phone currently produces the best images?
> 
> Nick
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Received on Thu May 13 06:26:22 2004