[Johan S @ Mar 27th 2007 2:18PM]

I dont see why people are not happy with this .. why is everyone complaining without seeing the picture quality. It is the sensor that matters the most .. not the lens. In any scene, there are literally trillions of photons hitting a sensor. The job of the lens is to focus the scene and send as much light onto the sensor. Efficiently refracting all the light of a given surface area down to the sensor without having the sensor located a far away .. that's a problem. However, even in a crappy camera phone, enough light is reaching the sensor ..the sensors either lack the dynamic range or the sensitivity to capture the scene.

Think about it this way, in a camera obscura the "lens" hole is the size of a pinhead, and the scene formed on the projected surface is exretemly dim .. however the scene is represented clearly (the smaller the hole the clearer the image) ..and an extremely sensitive photo surface can capture it. The reason we don't have pinhole cameras is precisely because we don't have sensitive enough sensor or photo surfaces.