Digital BW, The Print

Stephen Billard writes:

> Moore's law works mostly by shrinking the die size of the chip. Making them
> big is much tougher.

Unfortunately, the only way to really increase image quality over the
long run is to increase the size of the chip.  Just as larger film
formats produce better images because of the larger size of the image
area, large sensors can produce better images than small sensors, all
else being equal.  I don't think any 8x10 single-shot sensors are
forthcoming in the foreseeable future ... but what a nice image they
would produce if they existed!