On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:10 PM Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > > On Sep 13, 2020, at 5:57 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:21 PM Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > >> > >>> On Sep 13, 2020, at 5:04 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> In ten years that rez will come in one of the standard cameras in an > >>> iPhone. > >> > >> lets call green light 500nm, so if I do my math right, a square sensor > >> 60,000 photons on a side would be 30 um on a side. So, that kind of sets a > >> bottom limit on how small that resolution sensor could be. > > > > Not a problem. They will get around physical limits through a > > combination of: pixel-shift, software interpolation and extrapolation, > > and with current upward sizing trends, by 2030 the latest iPhone will > > be about the size of a sheet of drywall. > > 2030 is about 7 Moore’s cycles in the future, so with the current one at > 12MP, iPhones should still be under a gigapixel by 2030.
Ah, but what about when Apple answers the 108-megapixel Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra challenge? -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
