RE: Future of Photography (was RE: filmscanners: real value?)

["Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>]

> Clark Guy writes ...
> > I believe that digital cameras will continue to get better
> > and better, but ...
> > ...
> > because we are already approaching the limit of how small a
> > single pixel can be.  It can't be smaller than a wavelength
> > of light, and we are approaching this limit even now.  ...
>
>       Granted, much of what you say either makes digital cameras too
> expensive or too impractical for the majority of us.  However, my
> estimation of wavelengths of light relative interaction with a CCD
> would be on the order of a micron.  If there are 25k microns in a inch
> ... well, the math would imply there is considerable room for
> improvement(?)

The issues are getting the signals out of the array, and noise.  The reason
the new crop of '35mm-esque' cameras work so well, is the sensor elements
are spaced quite far apart, and are quite large.