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Old 06-22-2011, 02:43 PM   #6
glatt
 
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I think the idea is that with a regular camera, you have all sorts of trade offs. With this new kind, you don't have many of the trade offs.

For example, with an old camera, if you had a dim scene and want to have a sharp picture with a huge depth of field, you want to set the sensor to a low sensitivity to reduce pixel noise. Then you want to use a tiny aperture to maximize depth of field. Both of those things result in a much slower shutter speed, so you need to break out a tripod.

With this new style camera, the details are sketchy, but I think you don't have to worry about aperture at all. You just point it and trip the shutter and sort it out at home.
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