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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 217204" data-attributes="member: 16749">There may be a time in the future when the camera phones of that time are better than the DSLRs of today—in fact, surely the 5-megapixel camera in my current cellphone is better than the very earliest of DSLRs—but I do not think it will ever be possible to make a camera that fits in a cell phone that will be as good as the cameras full-sized cameras of that same time.&nbsp; I think it will always be possible to get better resolution, and better overall quality, with a larger sensor than with a smaller sensor of the same technological level.&nbsp; A larger sensor will always require larger lenses, and a larger device to contain it and on which to mount those lenses.&nbsp; I have to wonder about that new cellphone that claims to have a 40-megapixel camera built into it.&nbsp; I just have to think that's an advertising gimmick, that the phone cannot possibly have the optics or the processing power to make worthwhile use of a sensor with that much resolution.&nbsp; I'm sure we will not see truly useful 40-megapixel cellphone cameras before it becomes common for DSLRs or EVIL/MILCS to be well over a few hundred megapixels.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 217204, member: 16749"] There may be a time in the future when the camera phones of that time are better than the DSLRs of today—in fact, surely the 5-megapixel camera in my current cellphone is better than the very earliest of DSLRs—but I do not think it will ever be possible to make a camera that fits in a cell phone that will be as good as the cameras full-sized cameras of that same time. I think it will always be possible to get better resolution, and better overall quality, with a larger sensor than with a smaller sensor of the same technological level. A larger sensor will always require larger lenses, and a larger device to contain it and on which to mount those lenses. I have to wonder about that new cellphone that claims to have a 40-megapixel camera built into it. I just have to think that's an advertising gimmick, that the phone cannot possibly have the optics or the processing power to make worthwhile use of a sensor with that much resolution. I'm sure we will not see truly useful 40-megapixel cellphone cameras before it becomes common for DSLRs or EVIL/MILCS to be well over a few hundred megapixels. [/QUOTE]

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