Qkano <snapper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > <<Technical semantics. There is a very clear and accepted distinction between film and digital cameras. >> > > > Accepted and clear are different things. > > Sensors discribed as "digital" are misleading: they are analogue Well, sorta-kinda. We aren't, with consumer CCD sensors, to the point where we're directly counting photons during the exposure time and reporting that result as the value of a particular sensor. Yet. But I believe the astronomers are. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>