> 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.
