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Rash Predictions
I'm going to bounce completely off the wall here and muse aloud. I want to make some very rash, long-term predictions about what cameras of the future will look like.

– First of all, I predict that DSLRs will be an evolutionary dead-end. They may last another six or seven, or even ten or twelve years, but eventually they will fizzle and go away. I'm not trying to be controversial; I really believe they will.
– Second, I think sensors will get smaller, not bigger. That is, they will get smaller than "full-frame," APS-C, and 4/3rds size, although they may not need to be as small as the tiny 1.1/8" imagers on today's digicams. But they will be closer to today's 2/3 size (6.6 x 8.8mm) than to "full-frame" 24 x 36mm.
Sony's new 7.1 megapixel chip gives an indication, I believe, of the trend toward the future. It's just really good, a generational leap over, say, the earliest 2-MP imagers in cameras such as the Nikon CoolPix 950 at the...

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