i love these statements :) so a 10% efficient solar cell will achieve 1000 to 5000% efficiency ;)
I guess this statement over the greatly improved efficiency makes only sense if silicon becomes 100 to 500 times more sensitive for a specific wavelength where silicon normally is very insensitive ...
You could have asked them about the LCD resolution, which is not mentioned. But with this price, it will be probably quite low, otherwise they would have mentioned it.
My guess is 400x240 instead of the usual 320x240...
Basically a good idea, heard about it some time ago. But he should have mentioned the limitations of this design as well. With mirror lenses you tend to get doughnut shaped out-of-focus highlights and bokeh. This design gives you just the very outer ring so the picture will look even worse than a normal mirror lens. Also the amount of received light is reduced compared to a normal e.g. f/1.4 lens shown in the video.
Hopefully they can do something about the out-of-focus picture quality, otherwise this technology will be limited to some technical applications and astronomy.
Although i seldom use the video capability of my P&S, this video capability of the D90 sound interesting. But whats more interesting how they do it, e.g.:
Do they really use the whole sensor? I know that for P&S cameras they nearly always use only a small fraction of the sensor for video output (e.g. they read just every xth line or column), thus failing to take advantage of their bigger sensor. I would think they do something similar with the D90 as well, but maybe they have on chip binning or even more unlikely they read the full scale 12MP image and scale it down.
How fast they can capture a single frame? I know from the 40D that the liveview is distorted while panning. So the single frame capture (without the mechanical shutter) is too slow for proper video.
Video function without AF will be interesting, especially with the nice shallow depth of field :)
Bet many people will buy the d90 because of the video function even if they wont use it very much :) Hey and it has 11-AF points, 2 more than similar Canon cameras so its AF must be better, or? ;)
What is so bad about more comfigurations of eee PCs? We don't have to buy them. I welcome the many choices, and most of the different eeePC are just minor configurations with different size and type of mass storage.
Seems like Asus sees eeePC more like a new brand to sell of their laptops and consumer electronics. Maybe Asus branded laptops don't sell so well?
"What's the best gaming laptop for under 1,500 bucks? I had my eye on the P7805u (Gateway), but it seems Best Buy has run out for the time being. Also, as a secondary question, I like the specs on brands such as iBUYPOWER and CyberPower and the like, but are they reliable? I'm a little worried about buying labels that aren't huge like Dell, Gateway, etc. Thanks!"
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i love these statements :)
so a 10% efficient solar cell will achieve 1000 to 5000% efficiency ;)
I guess this statement over the greatly improved efficiency makes only sense if silicon becomes 100 to 500 times more sensitive for a specific wavelength where silicon normally is very insensitive ...