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<blockquote data-quote="Eye-level" data-source="post: 78405" data-attributes="member: 6548">Something along the lines of the computer chips is going on with our cameras too.&nbsp; Camera design and manufacturing is being &quot;out sourced&quot; if you will.&nbsp; Shutters are made by companies like Copal who have a monopoly on shutters.&nbsp; They are no longer made in house.&nbsp; Huge electronics companies like Sony are making sensors for everyone including Nikon.&nbsp; Not many sensors are made in house now.&nbsp; The camera makers provide the specs and the sensor folks make the sensor.&nbsp; Aspherical lenses used to be hand ground and super expensive.&nbsp; Now they are built using automation and there is a lot of tolerance because in board camera processors can take up the slack and &quot;fix&quot; whatever distortions or aberrations exist.&nbsp; As for Apple I for one would like to see a dedicated Apple camera.&nbsp; They have done it before.&nbsp; The Apple QuickTake 100 was released in 1994 made for Apple by Kodak (recognize the trend?)&nbsp; It was a digital camera with one meg of storage...amongst the first digital cameras!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eye-level, post: 78405, member: 6548"] Something along the lines of the computer chips is going on with our cameras too. Camera design and manufacturing is being "out sourced" if you will. Shutters are made by companies like Copal who have a monopoly on shutters. They are no longer made in house. Huge electronics companies like Sony are making sensors for everyone including Nikon. Not many sensors are made in house now. The camera makers provide the specs and the sensor folks make the sensor. Aspherical lenses used to be hand ground and super expensive. Now they are built using automation and there is a lot of tolerance because in board camera processors can take up the slack and "fix" whatever distortions or aberrations exist. As for Apple I for one would like to see a dedicated Apple camera. They have done it before. The Apple QuickTake 100 was released in 1994 made for Apple by Kodak (recognize the trend?) It was a digital camera with one meg of storage...amongst the first digital cameras! [/QUOTE]

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