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Photo Forum / Digital Photography / DSLR Cameras / October 2006The reason entry-level cameras are shrinking
It's the plastic. The only way to get a really rigid, strong plastic structure is to make its flat dimensions as small as possible, relative to wall thickness. Can you image if a camera the size of 1DsMkII or even the Canon 30D were plastic? All you'd hear when you gripped it would be the squeeks from the flexing body. Smaller cameras can be far more rigid, without the need for internal reinforcement (which might hamper circuitry and component placement or overly thick walls. [snip] Troll > It's the plastic. The only way to get a really rigid, strong plastic > structure is to make its flat dimensions as small as possible... Lucky they don't make big things like Formula 1 cars and bridges out of composite materials, isn't it? ;-) http://www.rics.org/Builtenvironment/Buildingmaterials/Plasticsrubberchemicaland synthetics/plastic_bridge241005.html >> It's the plastic. The only way to get a really rigid, strong plastic >> structure is to make its flat dimensions as small as possible... > >Lucky they don't make big things like Formula 1 cars and bridges out of >composite materials, isn't it? ;-) >http://www.rics.org/Builtenvironment/Buildingmaterials/Plasticsrubberchemicaland synthetics/plastic_bridge241005.html When they start making D80s using carbon fibre, you can brag about it. Plain old polycarbone is not a composite. >>> It's the plastic. The only way to get a really rigid, strong plastic >>> structure is to make its flat dimensions as small as possible... [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > When they start making D80s using carbon fibre, you can brag about it. > Plain old polycarbone is not a composite. Ah, so it's NOT the plastic; it's what you do with it? |
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