{"id":8443,"date":"2014-02-13T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T20:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8443"},"modified":"2014-02-13T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T20:08:10","slug":"sony-and-camera-sensor-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/13\/sony-and-camera-sensor-size\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony and Camera Sensor Size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/sensor-innovations-from-sony-ushering-in-a-golden-age-74229401513.html\">David Pogue<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/sensor-innovations-from-sony-ushering-in-a-golden-age-74229401513.html\"><p>In short, the single most important statistic about a camera is not the number of megapixels (which actually means very little to picture quality). It&rsquo;s sensor size.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t believe that camera sales are slowing down just because people are using their phones for photography now,&rdquo; a Sony rep told me. &ldquo;We think it&rsquo;s because camera makers aren&rsquo;t doing interesting things anymore.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Well, Sony has certainly been doing interesting things. A 1-inch sensor in a pocket camera? Never been done. A premium superzoom? Nobody else is doing that. A full-frame sensor in a coat-pocketable body? Unheard of.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Pogue: In short, the single most important statistic about a camera is not the number of megapixels (which actually means very little to picture quality). It&rsquo;s sensor size. [&#8230;] &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t believe that camera sales are slowing down just because people are using their phones for photography now,&rdquo; a Sony rep told me. &ldquo;We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[152,153,764],"class_list":["post-8443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-camera","tag-photography","tag-sony"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}