> I don't know if anyone else picked up on the editors comment in > professional photography magazine the other month, but it was food for > though. > > Steve Hynes considered the possibility that rather than chips becoming > bigger to cover existing SLR bodies and lenses, maybe they could reduce > the size by making the pixels smaller, thereby creating a high res > small chip, the benefits of which would be smaller camera bodies and > smaller wider aperture high resolution lenses. > > I think its time someone made a mini fuji 680... the Digiflex2 is a > good start, but, at the moment I think that the tail is wagging the > dog.
I have long since wondered why the medium format industry has not produced a 4x4 camera to fit the available chip, and also why the photographic industry does not agree on a standard chip size, such as 4x4, just like they agreed on film sizes years ago. The size could remain constant so that bodies and lenses could be developed without fear of obsolescence, whilst improvements to the chip and software could continue ad infinitum, again, just has occurred with film. Also a square chip would avoid the need to turn the camera on its side and compromise the ergonomics of the design. I still hate turning a 35mm camera sideways even though most of my images are this way round. Cheers, John Hill =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
