Will digital cameras become extinct....

I would suspect that for casual snapshot takers, a camera phone would suffice. Dyed in the wool photographers still would want a discrete instrument that has a lot of features.

In order for a phone ( at todays current technology) to HANDLE 10 megapix, it is going to have to be a huge phone.
Since everyone is in a rush to buy the latest and smallest phone , this wont happen for a while.

Granted, you can put a 10mp camera in a phone. Sure.
But you wont see a diffrence between that picture and a 4 mp picture. Except that you will get alot of noise. ( Noise=misplaced color pixels)

It isnt the Megapixel that truly makes the picture look good. It is the camera behind the megapixels.
That is why, you get ho-hum, dusty looking pictures from smaller, high megapixel cameras . Those ones that are the size of credit cards?
Unless it is about a 4-5mp, dont bother. You are not going to get better photos from it.

I could go into the 'why' of how the camera applies when dealing with high megapixel pictures.. but. .I dont think that was the original question. Im rambling..hehe

I have a 5meg pix camera on my hpone and its the worlds slimest. So im sure they can put a 10-meg pix in a phone easily and still make it smnall enough.

My phone is a phone.
My camera is a camera.

That's the way I like it

Thank you. One of my biggest gripes are those multi-use thingies that aren't great phones, good cameras, or decent computers. I have been in search of a high quality cellphone, with excellent sensitivity, and great sound.

Apparently, If you want something that is just a cellphone, it is one of those low end jobs, that are not very good. If you want higher quality, you are stuck with the bells and whistles that you don't need.

The lens on a camera phone will never have an optical zoom. Because of that anyone that wants to take a half way decent picture will have a camera. Even if the speed and technology catches up to put a 10mp camera on a phone and capture every pixel perfectly it will still be restricted to one poor fixed lens.

The camera phone is taking the place of the disposable 35mm camera but it will never take the place of a camera with focasable lenses.

That seems to be the way of technology these days. I find that rather sad, actually, and bloody stupid.

Anyway I hate cameras on phones, just wanted to see what peoples opinons on it were.

I've learned never to say never as far as cameras are concerned but the thought of having to take a telephone everywhere I take my camera is extaordinarily depressing.

I like the fact that my phone has a camera so I can take a quick picture if I do not have my camera at hand.

But - I still use my old Olympus µ - not digital!