digital camera capabilities

[James Fogg]

> As an expert in this area, my opinion is that silicon sensors have a
long
> ways to catch up to film.  Both CCD and CMOS sensors lack in
resolution
> and the spatial sampling artifacts Der Mouse mentioned are only part
of
> the problem.  


Another part of the problem is archiving the images. Decay of film/paper
photography is well known and incredibly slow(esp. B&W). Digital bitrot
is much faster and not well known. Just ask anyone who's lost a hard
disk drive full of digital baby pictures. I've also seen a lot of
discussion about CD-ROM and DVD-ROM lifespan and it's not good either.