Fair enough about the manual features, I hope they aren't buried in a menu.
I guess my point was, that's a lot of pixels on a small sensor. Each pixel's going to occupy around 1/20th or so of the area that it would on something like a Canon 400d. The Sony has 4x the max ISO. So it's taking 80 times less light, or thereabouts, and attempting to make some sort of image. The Canon does cost more than twice as much, but nonetheless I can't really see all these extra megapixels and high ISOs as anything but marketing gimmicks.
I'd like to see compact camera manufacturers concentrating on things like battery life, shutter lag, LCD lag, or anything that might make a different to the average photographer. I really don't think 13.6mp and 6400 ISO is preferable to the 8mp and 800-1600 ISO that the average midrange compact seem to settle on. Though I do like to see IS becoming commonplace; again, this makes a practical difference.
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Liam @ Feb 25th 2008 12:46PM
Fair enough about the manual features, I hope they aren't buried in a menu.
I guess my point was, that's a lot of pixels on a small sensor. Each pixel's going to occupy around 1/20th or so of the area that it would on something like a Canon 400d. The Sony has 4x the max ISO. So it's taking 80 times less light, or thereabouts, and attempting to make some sort of image. The Canon does cost more than twice as much, but nonetheless I can't really see all these extra megapixels and high ISOs as anything but marketing gimmicks.
I'd like to see compact camera manufacturers concentrating on things like battery life, shutter lag, LCD lag, or anything that might make a different to the average photographer. I really don't think 13.6mp and 6400 ISO is preferable to the 8mp and 800-1600 ISO that the average midrange compact seem to settle on. Though I do like to see IS becoming commonplace; again, this makes a practical difference.