I think the biggest shift will be non-silicon sensors. Just look at the opposite with OLED. Now they can film line produce them. They can roll out a OLED that is a meter wide and hundreds of meters long in a few years if they wanted, just an issue of the driving circuits. I can't wait to have the walls of a home covered in them, use them for lighting and everything.
When they can do the same with sensors, lots of stuff will change. First and foremost will be round sensors. As the sensor will be dirt cheap to make and there is just lost film (minimal expense) lost around them. Now you can have any crop you want. Put a round sensor in a EVIL type camera. Probably pretty big sensor. Then as I mentioned in the other thread, you largely crop the image down for your zoom. Vignetting just dictates how much you can get out of it. Just crop to the limits of the vignetting.
You also have the big gain that for a Full Frame 35mm sensor you go from a 1000USD unit cost to maybe a dollar. Makes cameras much cheaper.
As I have said in threads here and otherplaces. If you want to be rich, figure out how to make anything on a continuous roll film coating line process and you will be rich. OLED are there now, and will make that 60" flatscreen tv you have been lusting for cost just a couple hundred bucks if not much less. The same process is being used on Solar Panels, not as efficient but much cheaper. The maker of them is sold out of capacity for 3 years right now. You get most microchips and such on such a process and you are a multi-billionaire.
