Re: [APML]: CCD pic

[Andy Wallace <andywallace@home.com>]

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Reminds me of the first GPS I played with 5 or 6 years ago-it was built
by TI for the military and cost $25,000--not many people anticipated
such "exotic" tecnology becoming a consumer item for less than $100.

Wil Milan wrote:
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> We'll have to make a gentleman's bet on that. There's a huge
> amount of effort being put into CMOS image sensors (I've been a
> bit involved in some of it), and I expect that within 3 years
> CMOS will be comparable with conventional CCDs in performance and
> much lower in cost. I expect to see megapixel consumer cameras
> for $300, two-megapixel cameras with performance comparable to
> most 35mm cameras for not much over $1000, and megapixel CMOS
> astro cameras under $2K.
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> A handshake, and check again in July 2001? :-)
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> Wil M.
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