On Thursday, December 20, 2001 at 13:07, Motor Sport Visions Photography
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wrote re "Re: [OM] New Olys" saying:
...
> I'm not so concerned about more pixels. At this point what needs to
> happen in developing imagers to make better pictures is better speed
> (higher ISO) with lower noise. The 4-6 megapixel range is probably
> sufficient for compact field cameras. Much higher and storage device
> read/write access speeds need to speed up--a lot.
Also, with small pixel chips, it's still possible to concentrate *more*
light optically, with the reverse of a teleconverter (wideconverter?),
especially since they want to parallelise it anyway.
f /0.5 anyone?
tOM
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