Foreword
Number… a notion that is proprietary of consumer society, one of the greatest weapons of the media, which is used immorally lots of times in order to deceive customers. We would like to deny it, not take it into consideration, but most of us live under the spell of numbers, even though we don’t know about this most of the times. This is even truer for entertainment electronics products; the amateur consumer believes in numbers, as they seem as a certain base of comparison that always helps making the best possible decision. Or does it?
It’s not an easy choice
Although numbers are present everywhere, there effect is even more emphasized on the market of imaging devices. Thanks to digital technology cameras are easy to obtain; something that has been a privilege of a few a hundred years before is something accessible for everyone today. Numbers indicate this very well: in 1996 the number of digital cameras that have been in circulation has been just above one million, while nowadays this value is much over one hundred million. Everyone goes shopping mindlessly; anyone can enjoy the fun of creation, and there’s no problem with that. But unfortunately almost everyone is deceived by numbers: megapixels, ISO sensitivity, optical zoom – based on commercials we can believe that these are enough for photography. But this is not the truth; the numbers do not correlate with important properties and quality. Apart from this, mobile phone manufacturers also like to do the same thing: phone from me, camera from you; probably most of us still remember this kind of slogans. But we, given our profession, do not believe in this, so we went to find out: can a cell phone really replace a digital camera – even if that’s only an entry level one?
Camera or phone? Both? None?
We would like to answer this question, which might disturb many of you, with our review, so we have taken one of the best camera phones available today (this is Samsung G800), we have also packed three digital cameras, went out to take photos and than we rated the results while keeping professional criteria in view. To understand all this, we have to first understand the concept of photography, the way digital cameras work and some basic concepts, so we’ll discuss these first.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
