Originally posted by Gooshin why hold back evolution?
for less than 1000 dollars i can put together a PC system that can easily handle working with 20-40mb image files within seconds.
the world is moving forward, why do you people want to hold on to the past (this goes towards the full frame crowd, the film crowd, the darkroom crowd, and anyone else thats afraid of large files and post processing)
You are welcome to all the resolution you want, but there simply are other uses for SLR:s too. When you have a laptop on battery for importing 110 raw files, sorting and reviewing them, editing 4-10 of them in Photoshop and sending them over EDGE or WLAN, probably writing a story at the same time, checking facts on the web this is what pro people do, and for this they (we) need files with just the right amount of information.
The camera cannot be low-end, it just has to have an emphasis on speed.
I know I can also scan my negatives from 1998 much better now than then. It's just that in press photography, nobody needs them anymore. Everybody cannot be a legend. Our pictures are needed today, not next year.
BTW, when I open just a K10D file in Camera Raw it's 57,4 Mb. To control contrast I have to open it at least twice. A two-layered file is 118,6 Mb, I frequently have to work with many files open at the same time. There simply isn't a laptop out there that has the muscle to do this very rapidly, and when on battery the performance drops lower still.
If you run out of power or time you've lost the whole days work, and probably a customer for good.