Digital camera market is full of advertising gibberish boasting high number of megapixel designed to lure consumer and beginner photographers into believing that more megapixel equals better picture and a better camera.
Of course, this is complete nonsense. Higher number of megapixel does not equal to higher quality pictures. Higher number of megapixel in a digital camera does not mean it’s a better camera the same way the number of pages in a book has nothing to do with the greatness of the book.
Today, advertising driven consumers are lost deep within the misconception and myth surrounding digital cameras and megapixel. It’s almost laughable especially when practically all of the consumer level photographs end up as 4×6 or 5×7 prints at Walgreens or Costco. And knowing consumer level camera users, they’ll set their cameras to shoot at the highest MP setting as possible. In doing so, they soon realize the mega gigs of memory card they had is suddenly not big enough to hold all of the images. So they go out and buy more memory cards to hold more uselessly large images of blurry photos of their kids doing silly stuff.
They’ll go out and buy bigger hard drives to store more blurry photos of their kids doing silly stuff. Not only that, they’ll also soon realize their once capable computer isn’t fast enough at processing all of the uselessly large blurry photos of their kids doing silly stuff, so they’ll go out and buy a new computer as well.
Imagine all of the wasted space, memory, processing and transfer time not to mention the money wasted on hardware when measly 5 or 6 megapixel was more than enough to get a high quality 4×6 prints at a local Costco. There are photographs sold in galleries for thousands of dollars that are shot with 6 megapixel cameras.
So why so much emphasis on the megapixel? Well, advertising is for idiots. Advertising sells products just as politicians sell promises. Do your own research and make better decisions. There are lot more features of the camera that directly affects the picture quality and how the camera handles more than the count of megapixels. Also, the best and the greatest my not always work for you. Everyone has different needs and purpose for a camera. So concentrate on the features that are important to you. Focal length, zoom, aperture range, shutter speed, sensor size, weight, size, write speed, iso range are just some of the points to consider. Megapixel is important but it’s not everything.
“Sent from my iPhone, inside my Ferrari”
‘Sent from my iPhone’, ‘Sent via Blackberry’, or sent from whatever mobile device signatures used to imply one of few things:
1. “Look at me I’m cool~~!, I have [name of the latest mobile device here]. I’m also writing this as I’m driving my Audi A6 while reaching into my Prada to find something… oops…, gotta go, just dropped my D&G shades..”
2. An apology for being terse, brevity or a typo
3. “I do not know how to modify the default signature”
We all know that #1 no longer applies. It may have been a bragging right around 3 years ago but who cares anymore. A grocery bagger guy at my local produce fiddles with his iPhone between bags. He was also wearing a North Face Denali. Go figure.
I always believed #2 (an apology for being terse, brevity or a typo) was bullshit. If the mail in question is important enough for whatever reason business or otherwise, you would take the extra time to correct typos or elaborate the message. Brevity and typos have nothing to do with the size of a keyboard or whether you’re on the move or at home. It’s the importance and the context of the email in question.
For casual exchanges most people don’t proofread emails. And that’s okay. No one needs to apologize for that. Also, emailing someone isn’t some extraordinary opportunity where you only get one shot. People now are connected all of the time. No one writes more than they need to. In fact, everyone writes less and less regardless of the device they’re typing with. I don’t remember ever being temped to write longer emails because I was using a larger keyboard.
So there you have it. There is no reason why these little silly signatures should linger around. For those who do not know how to modify the default signatures, do yourself a favor and search how. Chances are you’re no more than 2 taps away from becoming less annoying. Seriously, no one really cares where your emails come from.