Originally posted by Blue Lithos needs tied to the whipping post and given 40 lashes with a wet noodle.
Ooo, someone's been reading my Adult Match Maker page!
This camera's a good sign. Sure, it is, essentially, crap, but the idea's got potential.
I hope sensor design stagnates. Really, I do. Why? Because then maybe we can stop focusing on our cams are going to be out of date in two years and working on other stuff. Like manufacturing excellent sensors much more cheaply. Transistors and ICs were freaking expensive when they first came out. Few manufacturers could afford to make radios with transistors when they were starting out, and now every man and his factory staffed by intelligent dogs is crankin' 'em out. Tell people ten years ago that in 2009 you could fit an entire Nintendo 64 on single chip, and they'd laugh.
Well, not stagnate entirely, but to flatten out and relax. And then maybe some cheaper manufacturers - like this guy cranking out these Yashis - can have a crack at the market. Filled what could be called the high-end low-end: cameras that sacrifice the sundry bells and whistles for things like a decent lens (which I imagine is cheaper to produce than something like an LCD live-view system, AF and zooms.) Save money by not making fancy programmed modes, and stick with ASM. OVF's still cheaper than EVF. If it's a fixed prime lens, you're just masturbating by sticking an EVF in their.
Of course, labeling the poor thing a digital Holga might be killing it in the womb.