On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, keller.schaefer wrote: > Yes, no doubt. But there still is room for further development. There already > are 5MP sensors 7.2x5.3mm large. An APS sized sensor with this pixel density > would have 46 MP. So a good quality 10+ MP APS sensor is nothing unthinkable, > right?
The noise at ISO 100 on those 7.2x5.3mm sensors is higher than the noise on the *ist D at ISO 800. I'd rather have 6 clean megapixels than 46 noisy ones. Compare the Olympus E1 to the *ist D. The pixel size of the E1 is smaller, but nowhere near as small as the P&S cameras. The E1 is a much noisier camera than the *ist D. alex
