Originally Posted by Botnst

Not being a digital expert frees me from any actual knowledge, so I'll speculate like I know something.

I'll bet many of the concepts we learned using optical/chemical photography is not directly translatable into the digital domain. Things like "film speed" for example. That used to be related to emulsion characteristics. How does that translate into some chip thingie?

So in my world of foil-hattedness, I think that electronics engineers got with human factors types and ask, "How can we easy these old farts into this new type of imagery acquisition?" The answer is to make it as similar to what we know as possible. This is why the high-end cameras look like they have a film advance system and the same general shape as a 'real' camera. I'll bet there is no good reason in electro-optics to make a camera any particular shape other than ease of handling and control of the lens.

What do you think?