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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 498783" data-attributes="member: 9240">Not absurd at all when you limit the conversation to consumer level DSLR's, consumer glass and the way in which consumers tend to use them.  Go back in time on this site alone and find all the threads that talk about going on vacation and wondering whether to pack one all-around lens or carry a couple.  A D5500 and a couple zooms for a vacation will run you about the same, and you've now got one thing around your neck, another around your shoulder and you're looking left and right all the time waiting for someone to ruin your European vacation by stealing your stuff.  Then you get home, do a quick edit on some free software that you don't quite understand yet and then stick up unsharpened 1000px copies on Facebook to make your friends jealous.  If this is how and why you use a DSLR then I would argue that this is a potentially game changing solution for that market.No, this will not make a DSLR and great glass obsolete, it will just make it even more unnecessary than it is now for the casual photographer.  And I'm more than OK with that.And as I said above, I suspect things like f1.0 and 52MP's have to do with the additive properties available when multiple images are stitched together.  52MP's could relate to usable pixel information across all 10 lenses being used, and f1.0 is likely a measure of practical depth of field (as is calculated in things like the Brenizer Method panos) and not a measure of light passing through the lens.  Again, you can call it hype or gimmicks, but I'm all for stuff like this.</blockquote>

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