"Why would you build a camera with CCD to take superb OM lenses when cheap
zooms on point and shoot digital cameras exceed the image quality that can
be delivered by a current commercially available CCD?" - Winsor Crosby, Long
Beach, California
Er... Current CCD technology uses 10-micron pixels, i.e., 100 pixels to the
millimeter = 50 lines per millimeter. Although some Zuiko lenses are
appreciably better than that, it's not an unreasonable match.
Did you think CCDs were inherently 640x480 just because the cheap ones are?
Even those have 10-micron pixels -- on a 6.4 x 4.8-millimeter chip!
The digital OM-5 should of course have a 2000 x 3000-pixel array, like
Nikon's best.
Michael A. Covington / AI Center / The University of Georgia
http://www.ai.uga.edu/~mc http://www.mindspring.com/~covington <><
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