Railroad picture of the day
Notice how the camera carefully focussed on the utility pole in front of the lead locomotive? It’s that sort of photographic detail that makes a CBC a CBC.
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Hopefully the F550 will become obsolete quickly enough so I can get one during my lifetime :-) Right now my primary selection criteria for a CBC is “Is it less than $25?”, so that means I end up with a collection of 4-6 mpixel cameras that I won’t cry over if the bicycle hits a bump and ejects the camera right into the path of the front wheel.
Needless to say that isn’t enough to stop me from using the camera; as long as the optics are working I can more-or-less aim it by feel (though I did finally snap and get a Nikon ES5600 from KEH; the imagine processing program in that camera is much better than the pile of horrible kludges that makes up Kodak’s software.)
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I have been pleasantly surprised by the Fujifilm F550; the GPS does eventually get lock, and it does do raw, but I’ve been using it as a straight-to-JPG snapshot camera and it’s both tolerably responsive and remarkably good about focus. It can’t manage to lock up subway tunnel walls when the train is moving, but that’s probably not a reasonable expectation.
Generally, though, even the wee compacts haven’t stopped improving things like autofocus. Maybe that’s where we’ll get AI from, instead of the spam/spam-filter arms race?