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peoples obsession with new novelty in tech is funny to me. my own included.

I once strove to get higher and higher megapixel cameras back when that was a thing.

Then I realized that no one would ever see it, and the whole thing was a marketing lie.

they images would only be viewed on the internet, and anything higher than around 15 megapixels would be largely lost on the viewer.

same thing with video. 'oh. i need muh 4k!'

you really dont need more than 360p for most things. and HD is more than sufficient for larger screen viewing.

'but i can see the pores in peoples faces with 4k!' well good for you.

im here for new breakthrough tech, but it is very rare.

new languages, new cameras, new editors, new this new that.

mostly hype that prevents people from sticking with one thing and learning it well, and then upgrading when actual breakthrough tech shows up.

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unit 1y ago

If you're not printing the pictures, then there's no need for a higher MP camera

unit 1y ago

I mean printing them big

mrecheese 🧀 1y ago

I have the first photo on this page printed 3 feet wide. It looks great, even close. Ben told me he shot it with a D700, so it's 120-ish ppi. I stopped counting pixels after that.

https://www.launchphotography.com/Endeavour_Flight_Deck.html

atyh 1y ago

Billboards used to be printed from early digital cameras with 5mpx cameras. The quality hasn’t greatly improved.

Then again, there was a guy who used an aerial surveillance camera to make a box camera out of a box truck. He shot portraits onto 3ft by 4ft metal plates covered with a silver solution, and did developing inside the camera body of the truck. That was levels of resolution that are hard to fathom.

karo 1y ago

hah yeah, I feel the same way when people start getting into getting higher and higher fps for gaming.

RealJohnDoe 1y ago

Yeah, I was that way about high fidelity audio.

Though I can hear the difference, most people can't. Nor could they see with my level of visual acuity.

But all those things fade with time, and lose significance. Just like my dick lol..🍆😭😊

zyrotin 1y ago

I use 4K cameras to record plays and so I can just set up a couple of cameras and shoot wide and then digitally zoom in as needed in the edit.

Luxferre 1y ago

I know a guy who wants to buy everything new just because it's new. He has top-notch motherboards, videocards, monitors just for the sake of it. He wants to have a 100GBit network at home, not knowing what to do with it, he doesn't run any home servers or Monero/Tor nodes or something. He wants it just because he can afford it. Peak consumerism.

Meanwhile, I reduce every video quality to 720p because most of my screens aren't larger than 1366x768. And even on the one with 1920x1080 (which is already huge by my standards), I still view in 720p at most because it spends less processing power and overall energy.

And yes, there's an old saying: "if people really knew sh, ed, sed, grep and awk, millions of software products would never need to be created".

I'd add bc/dc to that list, but whatever.