Magazine Article   The Golden Age of Photography Part 2: Beyond
the Digicam Revolution  What's to stop Web photographers from
discovering that if they have tons of pixels, they can crop-
in—that is to say, zoom—with much shorter, more compact
telephoto lenses? It remains to be seen what the market will
make of that. Maybe Web photography will become as distinct a
form as movie photography did.  A broad contrast range will be
required regardless. Will these newest image sensors provide it?
That's a bit of a wildcard, until they're tested out. For unlike
the CCDs in the Nikons I've used, the new Canon and Kodak use
CMOS technology. Once thought destined for "machine vision"
applications and entry-level cameras, CMOS surprised everyone
when it first showed-up in a "serious" camera—the Canon D30—a
few years ago. The performance of that camera was
surprising—although Canon at the time positioned the camera for
portrait studio work. And portraits, characteristically, are
made with fairly low contrast.  Another CMOS