Just because it's electronic it doesn't mean it's like a desktop PC: lots of room and well defined subsystem/component interfaces. Physically, it's like the difference in changing a socketed CPU in a desktop motherboard and a surface mount CPU in a laptop. Even if you could physically get CCDs changed/upgraded, if you double the pixel count, the amount of data doubles so things will take twice as long. It's like updating film by replacing the emulsion on a film's base, not changing the film canister.
--- Pat White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There may be technical reasons that make it difficult to replace a, say, > 3-megapixel CCD with next year's 7-meg unit, but it would make DSLRs more > attractive. You can take a 60-year-old film camera and use 2002 film in it, > which I find pretty cool. I'd like a DSLR that won't be a doorstop in five > years, or is that just being unrealistic? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
