digital camera capabilities

As an expert in this area, my opinion is that silicon sensors have a long ways to catch up to film. Both CCD and CMOS sensors lack in resolution and the spatial sampling artifacts Der Mouse mentioned are only part of the problem. (CFA array, metal shading of the cell) The world however, is focused (hahah pun intended) on the megapixel wars. Far more important is the geometry of the color filter array and conductors at the periphery, causing viginetting. Also, the conversion of the A/D in both systems is only 12 bits, far below the dynamic range of film and the eye. While at Micron, we developed a high dynamic range sensor for the security camera market, by varying the cell precharge and a sub ranging A/D for the sample. Imagine a security camera viewing a dark face in the lobby, and the security cam looking outside the front door glass at the daylight street too, we could image both of these simultaneously, no f stop changes... Lucas Film Pioneered the OpenEXR high dynamic range format: http://www.openexr.com/ Also take a look at where film is with the Gigapixel project: http://www.gigapxl.org/ Film has a few miles left for sure. Randy _________________________________________________________________ Don't get caught with egg on your face. Play Chicktionary! http://club.live.com/chicktionary.aspx?icid=chick_wlhmtextlink1_dec