Are sensors going to continue to get smaller?

13 years 3 months ago #24616 by Todd Knight
At a camera shop yesterday getting a new battery I over heard the clerk talking to another customer about camera sensors are going to continue to get smaller and smaller. What is purpose of this?

Was the purpose to go from a full frame to a crop sensor camera a method to make cameras more affordable for the general consumer?


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13 years 3 months ago #24617 by Baydream
Think iPhone, camera in your watch (if you still wear one), camera in your sunglasses (it's here). Check out Dewitt Jones. He has been doing a series of iPhone photos and posting to Facebook.

Shoot, learn and share. It will make you a better photographer.
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13 years 3 months ago #24654 by BranCarr
I would say yes, they will continue to get smaller. Just like everything else in life. Computers were huge when they first were bult. Now look at the sizes they come in.


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13 years 3 months ago #24759 by Jeffster

Baydream wrote: Think iPhone, camera in your watch (if you still wear one), camera in your sunglasses (it's here). Check out Dewitt Jones. He has been doing a series of iPhone photos and posting to Facebook.


True, but do you think we will be seeing camera's with larger than 1.5 or 1.6 crop sensors? Or wait, is that how it goes?


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13 years 3 months ago #24762 by Baydream

Jeffster wrote:

Baydream wrote: Think iPhone, camera in your watch (if you still wear one), camera in your sunglasses (it's here). Check out Dewitt Jones. He has been doing a series of iPhone photos and posting to Facebook.


True, but do you think we will be seeing camera's with larger than 1.5 or 1.6 crop sensors? Or wait, is that how it goes?

We now have the full-frame and some are working on medium format digital.
That means that sensors are getter larger AND smaller.

Shoot, learn and share. It will make you a better photographer.
fineartamerica.com/profiles/john-g-schickler.html?tab=artwork

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13 years 3 months ago #24825 by Yasko

Baydream wrote:

Jeffster wrote:

Baydream wrote: Think iPhone, camera in your watch (if you still wear one), camera in your sunglasses (it's here). Check out Dewitt Jones. He has been doing a series of iPhone photos and posting to Facebook.


True, but do you think we will be seeing camera's with larger than 1.5 or 1.6 crop sensors? Or wait, is that how it goes?

We now have the full-frame and some are working on medium format digital.
That means that sensors are getter larger AND smaller.


I agree. We're going to go both ways. For applications where image quality is paramount, there will always be large sensors. Products like cell-phones where photographs are a secondary function will integrate smaller and smaller sensors.


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13 years 3 months ago #24932 by Todd Knight
:thumbsup: Good points, serves me right for getting involved in a conversation that was mid way though, they could have been talking about the exact same thing! :rofl:


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13 years 3 months ago #25180 by Stealthy Ninja
Smaller than a crappy mobile phone sensor? :huh:

I disagree. I think they're gonna get bigger as people start to appreciate sensor size over MP count and as manufacturing of the sensors gets cheaper and more effective.

Clerks in camera stores often don't know what they're talking about. ;)
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