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Thoughts About "Full Frame"
The last column I published on this site is of a type almost tailor-made to make me look like a fool one day. In "Mo' Bettah" I wrote about "How Much Is Enough," and actually specified some parameters of digital cameras that I thought would amount to "enough."
This, of course, is tantamount to saying "further progress isn't needed," and all such pronouncements run the risk of being simply blind – blind to progress, blind to future innovation – or just wrong.
There are many examples in history, but the story that comes to my mind is one told by the great automotive writer Ralph Stein about a car called the Wills Sainte (((SIC))) Claire. C. Harold Wills was Henry Ford's chief designer, the man who was instrumental in many of Ford's early engineering successes, and who designed the classic, and lovely, Ford script logo.

The Ford blue oval, one of the most recognized logos in the world, was original...

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