On 25 Feb 2003 at 1:41, Peter Alling wrote:

> When you look at giga pixels in a reasonable sized sensor you're running 
> into fundamental
> physical constraints.  In other words you can't pack the photons tight 
> enough for a hand held
> device.

It's more fundamental than that, there is an obvious minimum size of a sensor 
pixel and that is that it has to be larger than the wave-length of the light 
that it is designed to capture, regardless of technological advances.

Rob Studdert
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