Future trends

This is the end of the 'digital photography for beginners' section. Soon there will be posts on all kinds of photo topics.

Not so long ago, a digital SLR cost over £30,000 and was big, heavy and awkward to use. A better product can be had now for less than £500. Memory cards have seen an even more dramatic change.

Video has just been introduced onto a high end DSLR and others will follow. I expect a levelling off on the megapixel front as the current ones can manage 20x30" prints. I think 18MP is a good compromise. Memory cards could be set for a giant increase, up to 2TB - Terabytes!

Mini fuel cells could solve the power problems of constantly recharging batteries and carry adapters for chargers. Hopefully we we see some new lens designs. I wish the camera companies would work on getting autofocus to work on lenses with effective apertures less than f5.6, so that teleconverters could work down to say f11, now that ISO is good enough at 3200.

So now that bit of my blog is done, not comprehensive and a little bit random but if you have never considered digital photography before you may have learned something.