Power consumption, perhaps, although there are some impressive strides being made in lithium-ion battery technology as well as portable methane-powered fuel cells (no joke!) for laptops. Heat dissipation will be (and is) less of an issue as digital cameras are focused (hah! Punny!) more on capture and temporary storage than image modification or manipulation. My original, not-too-terribly-well-articulated point is that the ferocious pace of technological advancement promises to bring all of those specs well within reach in a very short period of time, using the advancement of CPU, RAM and HD technologies as my examples.
-Zak- > Power usage and heat dissipation will still be a problem. The faster > the chip and the more tightly packed the components the more heat is > generated as a byproduct. Even using advanced design techniques the > current generation of computer chips will get hot enough to cook them- > selves without proper ventilation. If Juan's specs are met within 5 > years I bet the camera looks a lot like that silly Spotmatic wall hanging > that sold on e-bay recently to hold a refrigeration unit and > multiple fans. > > At 01:24 AM 2/14/2002 -0600, you wrote: > >Are you kidding? Look at how far / fast storage, processing and RAM > >technology have advanced in the last 10 years. I remember (quite > >clearly!) when you were getting a good deal if you paid $2.00 > per megabyte > >of storage. IE, 500 MB hard drives for US$1,000.00. It would > surprise me > >greatly if it took longer than 5 years to hit every one of the > specs that > >Juan desires. > > > >-Zak- > >- > >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
