A Great Idea!!
I was talking to my brother just now and the topic of conversation wandered onto CCD chips in cameras (he noticed a piccie of one in my assignment). He said can you swap out the CCD in a camera and I said no, they're usually soldered in and can't be changed. He said it was a pity because as new chips came out, you could upgrade your camera.
Now, wouldn't be a brilliant idea if that's exactly what you could do. When a new chip came into production, you could lift the old chip in your camera out of its socket and replace it with a brand new chip. Just change the firmware on the camera's MB and away you go!!!!. It would mean that there'd have to be industry standards that the camera manufacturers would have to adhere to and it might make the manufacturing and eventual operation of the cameras a lot easier if things were standardised. Would probably even make them cheaper in the long run, as well.
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