{"id":20198,"date":"2021-03-24T01:23:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T05:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=20198"},"modified":"2021-03-24T01:36:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T05:36:45","slug":"it-doesnt-matter-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/it-doesnt-matter-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"it doesn’t matter anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lens and keys photo courtesy of How to Geek article<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. In the early days of digital photography, the size of the sensor was very important. The larger the sensor, the lower the noise and the higher the sensitivity.<\/p>\n

This led to compact digital cameras and then digital SLR cameras (DSLR) with cropped and full frame sensors. In this case ‘full frame’ was equated to a 35mm film frame so lenses were 1:1 (a 50mm lens is a 50mm lens). Cropped sensors when used with 35mm lenses meant an increase in equivalent focal length. I.E. a 50mm lenses may take an image equivalent to a 75mm lens or even longer. The blog How-to-Geek<\/a> recently published this article on sensors<\/a>. The less expensive mirrorless cameras, like DSLR cameras, have full frame or cropped sensors allowing adaptors for film-based lenses enabling them to focus to infinity in use.<\/p>\n

Today, modern smartphone cameras use tiny sensors with such immense technical improvements that their low noise and high sensitivity performance approaches that of DSLR cameras when the smartphone camera is used in room light or brighter. Only in very low light situations does the DSLR excel. As mentioned in a recent post (yesterday), the compact digital market has been all but destroyed by smartphones and computational photography.<\/p>\n

NB. The title of this post is a riff on a line in New York singer Suzanne Vega<\/a>‘s haunting 1984 song, Luka<\/a>. The song is on her second CD (I have her first three CDs).<\/p>\n

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Toronto. In the early days of digital photography, the size of the sensor was very important. The larger the sensor, the lower the noise and the higher the sensitivity. This led to compact digital cameras and then digital SLR cameras … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[105,3294,414,3587],"class_list":["post-20198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-digital","tag-how-to-geek","tag-sensor","tag-suzanne-vega"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20198"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20225,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20198\/revisions\/20225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}