Photography facts and fallacies.

[arthurking83]

Yeah, I never quite got the pixel chase with mobile phones. Yeah, now you can have pictures that are 5 times the size and still look crap, and you'll still upload to Facebook at 1024x768

Actually Lumia 1020 showed us why .. (the pixel chase in cam phones).

Because lens design is restricted in a phone cam(by size) .. they can't really create zoom lenses easily or effectively.
Lumia's response to this is to crop digitally!
45Mp down to 8Mp is quite a massive crop ratio .. looks like a zoom action keeps the don't-really-care set happy as they get all that they want.

Makes sense to me(from a make zillions of dollars by selling to the masses perspective .. not from a I-want-the-best-image-quality gearheaded point of view!)

[Nick Cliff]

Another fallacy,if its the latest lens it must be the greatest,regards Nick.

[Kym]

primes are so razor sharp they come with a warning to avoid injuries.

[russrad]

And back in 2003... "no serious photographer would attempt to use a digital system camera for commercial work"

And going a bit further back - ' no serious photographer would use 35mm for commercial work'

[Nick Cliff]

Pentax primes must only be used with a tripod for portraits of the ladies (kick tripod during shutter actuation),fact,regards Nick.