On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > Ever heard of a thing called competition?
Nice sarcasm. > Pentax will probably HAVE TO follow the nikon/canon model of aps then > full size digital sensors in SLRs to stay competitive. So... how many Nikon and Canon DSLRs are there with a full frame sensor? I can only think of one, the Canon 1Ds, though Kodak makes one based on a Nikon body. Those sell for about 3 times the price of the D100/10D/*istD, so I'm not sure why Pentax will need to offer a similar camera to compete. > Eventually, the only way to effectively increase pixel count will be to > make sensor larger. Otherwise the pixels get too small and become > insensitive/noisy... At one point in time, it seemed that the only way to make computers more powerful was to radically increase the size. But, strangely enough, they keep getting smaller and more powerful. I'd be surprised if the light-gathering/processing abilities of current sensors doesn't improve dramatically in the future without the need to go with larger sensors. chris
