How can Nikon remain in business with 12MP FF?

[skitron]

So the sensor is actually a storage device?

Yes, that's precisely right...

In a way, yes...

Thanks to both of you for enlightening me. I know quite a bit about audio related circuitry but nadda about this sort of thing and the explanations are good.

 

[skitron]

The attached image shows 100% crops of the identical region, the left being from the 1/2000s image and the right from the 1/5s image.

Very interesting. I guess I can't "take away" what I thought I could earlier LOL.

 

[Meh]

So the sensor is actually a storage device?

Yes, that's precisely right...

In a way, yes...

Thanks to both of you for enlightening me. I know quite a bit about audio related circuitry but nadda about this sort of thing and the explanations are good.

Thank you for your thank you. Yeah, audio sampling is different since it's a time varying signal which is sampled and digitally encoded in real time.