Both ccd and cmos have their own advantages and disadvantages. Cmos is quite a bit cheaper to manufacture and takes less power smaller components, but I would rather have a decent ccd than a cheap and nasty cmos. Quality cmos and quality ccd are both fine, there are advocates for each, I am not one of either. Cmos has come on a lot and I believe there are now hybrids, although I gave up following all that crap a couple of years ago as I don't care about advances any more in camera technology. My cameras will still produce the same quality of images now that I required of them when I bought them.
I can't remember the number of people I have taught who have come along with a camera saying it's got a 20million (exaggeration) digital zoom it's fantastic. when you explain to them what it actually means they were sick as pigs.
It's like the cheap scanners when they first came out the shops were quoting interpolation figures and people were buying them because they were bigger figures. Only look at Optical as the digital can be achieved just by cropping that's what digital zoom does, it means nothing worth thinking about.
Peter
