I would hope and think Olympus would be able make
lenses that could be scaled with the sixe of a sensor
or that the limit to lens and sensor sensitivity is
high enough to arrive at film quality and maybe even
beyond before a limit is reached. If not Olympus would
indeed be painting themselves into a corner or they
would have to pull a dirty trick of marketing by
making this line totally obselete like Canon and
Minolta did to their older lensmounts.
Mark Lloyd
--- "Andrew Beals <bandy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>"
<bandy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > But:
> > > - the image sensor is much smaller than
> a 35 negative
> >
> > True - but isn't a larger sensor an inevitable
> progression for digital
> > cameras anyway?
>
> To a point. Chips get faster and use less juice
> when they're smaller. Yields
> [usable chips per die] go way down as the size goes
> up. A full-frame sensor
> would be very very expensive, indeed.
>
> So, the right path is to build better lenses for
> smaller imaging areas until you're at the limits of
> the glass and bring the sensors as fine as you can
> get them.
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