{"id":1868,"date":"2009-03-06T18:26:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T16:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/en\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2009-03-06T18:33:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T16:33:40","slug":"the-end-of-the-pixel-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/2009\/03\/06\/the-end-of-the-pixel-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of the pixel war?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is going to be considered either as the boldest move in years for a whole industry, or the dumbest moment in the career of a doomed photo executive.<\/p>\n

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'War and Peace' by Jayel Aheram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Akira Watanabe, manager of Olympus Imaging’s SLR planning department, in an interview given to CNet at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) fair, said: “We have no intention to compete in the megapixel wars for E-System<\/em>” Olympus’ line of SLR cameras [1<\/a>]. Instead, Olympus intends to work on improving the Image Quality, the sensitivity, the noise levels, etc.<\/p>\n

For most people this may come as shocking news. Everybody has grown used to the continuous increase in number of mega-pixels in photo cameras. But most photographers will have noticed that the larger the sensor and the smaller the number of pixels (in a specific technology generation), the better the images.<\/p>\n

For Olympus, 12 mega-pixels is enough<\/strong>. It is enough for nearly all reasonable amateur applications (including some large prints).<\/p>\n

Nikon did something less obvious when they launched the Nikon D700. But this is in the same: The Nikon D700 opted for a relatively small sensor resolution (only 12 MP on a large Full Frame sensor) to favor image quality (IQ). But they did not say so.<\/p>\n

Let’s hope that many other companies will participate in this truce and transform it into a new competition for quality rather than quantity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is going to be considered either as the boldest move in years for a whole industry, or the dumbest moment in the career of a doomed photo executive. Akira Watanabe, manager of Olympus Imaging’s SLR planning department, in an interview given to CNet at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) fair, said: “We have no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nikon-d700","category-olympus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}