Seitz's 160 Megapixel Digital Camera

An anonymous reader writes "Digital cameras had been lagging behind Moores law for a while, but Seitz has taken a massive step forward with their announcement of a 160 Megapixel digital camera! At almost 20" long, with a price tag of around $36,000, and with on-board gigabit ethernet to copy off the image it's not exactly going to take on the consumer market, but how long before we see this resolution in a mobile phone?
Even with todays current range of digital cameras massive images are possible — such as the amazing 720 Megapixel image of Sydney Harbour"

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Its not the megapixels

[regular_gonzalez]

Cell phone cameras will never be an acceptable substitute for the hobbyist or pro-sumer. Megapixels are only a small part of what makes a quality photograph. Even if a cell phone were to incorporate manual settings for shutter speed, aperture and focus, there will always be one area in which they can not match a decent camera, and that is the optics. There's just not enough room on a cell phone body to incorporate a quality lens.