That could well be - they both have more options/settings than I can comprehend without the manual in hand, and by then, the picture opportunity is long gone :-( In the olden days, one reading of this stuff and it was imprinted, but now-a-daze I have to get the book out to set the alarm clock.
However, considering the photos are going to be viewed on a computer screen, which is normally set to 96 dpi, even a 1 Mp camera will manage that job well. Otherwise, with a hi-pixel count, you're going to have to be throwing away pixels anyway to get the thing down to a viewable size. Now if you'r talking about printing pictures, especially enlarging them, the the higher Mpixel ratings can be a help, but come on; what good is a 3' x 4' photograph? I've only used high pixels once; when I wanted to get some individual faces out of a photograph and wanted to keep their detail. In addition, 6 megapixels doesn't necessarily mean there will be 6 megapixels in the photo; for that info you have to research and dig into the camera specs a little deeper. Multiple pixels can be defined/used in different ways semantically and synctacticly.
Yabbut, the cowbell always comes before the big crash cymbal hit, or right after/before the 'rain tree' fades, and it takes two hours of studio time and an iChing consultation to make that decision.
Keep that in mind the next time you hear those in a mix ... in the rare event that you even notice.
That's my impression. All my 35mm gear has sat in the safe for years, I'm not about to lug around a bag of bodies and lenses and so on these days, but a one-piece design with a lense with that kind of range would be a different matter.
Oh, frigg... the 'RainTree'... I made a 'bass' version of a rain tree once out of a 6" SonoTube and big marbles...my kids and I had a huge laugh...
The attention to detail in a recording studio is such a waste of time these days. By the time they squeeze the shit out of the dynamic range by trying to get some 'level' out of an MP3, detail, as we once knew it, is long gone. I hope you'll find the time to read this article which opened my eyes...with quite a bit of sadness.
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is a worth-while read. (Try to get past RS's political shit, but when it comes to music, they do have some validity.)
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Don't stop there. Printers will never equal the quality you get from a well made photo print or even a machine print at the 1 hour lab. We were right weren't we? At leas a few years ago.
My OM-2 sits mostly in the bag along with the lenses while my digital is in my shirt pocket and I've put together a few albums from my Canon printer. . .
Read it, but didn't need to ... lived it. Engineered a big commercial a few years back using a Ricky Martin production as the backing track ... I was instructed to rip the song off a CD his producer sent along for the purpose. If you've ever seen "music" (I use the term in the most loose sense) waveforms represented on computer software, you will appreciate the fact that, on the screen, and starting at zero to the end of the song, the waveform from this track looked precisely like a red tubafour extending from left to right ... now, that's compression!
It was pretty standard practice to compress mixes pretty hard for radio play when I first started engineering back in the dinosaur "vinyl" days. (those
57 Chevy dashboard speakers were so bad that we routinely, and "accidently", drove off with speakers from the local drive-in move theater as "upgrades")
... and if you don't learn to compress for TV, you'll go broke quickly.
BUT, we had a sensibility to the music in those days that is arguably nonexistent today (just another example of the world going to shit, Joe B. ... with all the cRap on the airwaves) and were considerate enough to do two masters, one for airplay, one for retail/the people ... that's much too complicated for today's ProTools mouse jockey's world of "let the pigs have the same swill".
You start with shit, no matter how much sugar you use, you still got shit.
And a whole lot less wash water going into the environment.... water that had all kinda of nifty bromides and crap in it. Also, the making of film is hardly a green process. But I miss the way Kodachrome 25 used to lie to me.
. . . you give me such nice, bright colors I love to take photographs So, Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y
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