Those folded lenses always blow. Their resolving power just isn't adequate. Although if camera manufacturers keep putting smaller, denser, noisier CCDs into these things, they will eventually match perfectly (resulting in truly horrific pictures). Besides, this design is as old as the 1.3mp camera phone (that can now be found lying in the street like discarded gum). Give me a break - everyone has a camera exactly like this. Improve the features and functions and you just might actually be able to sell a few. Specifically, cram a big sensative CMOS into a compact body with a real wide-angle zoom lens, optical stabilization, and XGA video or better). *boom* They'd sell a million of them. The icing on the cake would be high FPS capability and HD video... but they aren't necessities on a "still" camera.
Fuji was the only brand that actually cared about image quality, with their relatively big CCD on the F30/F31fd, which has excellent quality. But unfortunately on their new model they doubled the resolution with the same sensor size. Sadly image quality doesn't sell as much as megapixels do.
The same Fuji that kept using interpolation to allow them to advertise larger resolutions long after everyone else had realised that people weren't fooled?
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Those folded lenses always blow. Their resolving power just isn't adequate. Although if camera manufacturers keep putting smaller, denser, noisier CCDs into these things, they will eventually match perfectly (resulting in truly horrific pictures). Besides, this design is as old as the 1.3mp camera phone (that can now be found lying in the street like discarded gum). Give me a break - everyone has a camera exactly like this. Improve the features and functions and you just might actually be able to sell a few. Specifically, cram a big sensative CMOS into a compact body with a real wide-angle zoom lens, optical stabilization, and XGA video or better). *boom* They'd sell a million of them. The icing on the cake would be high FPS capability and HD video... but they aren't necessities on a "still" camera.
Fuji was the only brand that actually cared about image quality, with their relatively big CCD on the F30/F31fd, which has excellent quality. But unfortunately on their new model they doubled the resolution with the same sensor size. Sadly image quality doesn't sell as much as megapixels do.
The same Fuji that kept using interpolation to allow them to advertise larger resolutions long after everyone else had realised that people weren't fooled?