> Really? I thought film was well-known for being grainy at low light 
> levels...

Yes, but a cheap film camera with ISO100 loaded will display orders of 
magnitude less noise compared to even a moderately priced digital camera.

> (Kinda amusing how not denying access to data is a "feature", eh?)

But the data never exists as a whole in the first place in cheap cameras. 
The demosaic/compression chip will work on groups of lines at a time and 
spurt them out to the file-write buffer.  If you tried to simply pass the 
raw data through you'd need a much bigger buffer and possibly faster 
file-writing electronics (unless you're happy to wait 3x-6x longer for each 
write).

Also they would need to include some RAW conversion software with the 
camera, which needs writing.

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