Context: Digital cameras have far surpassed film in terms of sensitivity to light, with ISO equivalent speeds of up to 409,600, a number that is unfathomable in the realm of conventional film photography. Faster processors, as well as advances in software noise reduction techniques allow this type of processing to be executed the moment the photo is captured, allowing photographers to store images that have a higher level of refinement and would have been prohibitively time consuming to process with earlier generations of digital camera hardware.

Question: What types of cameras have proven to be much more sensitive to light than film?
Answer: Digital cameras

Question: What ISO equivalent speeds can digital cameras obtain?
Answer: 409,600

Question: What is responsible for these vast increases in speed?
Answer: Faster processors, as well as advances in software noise reduction techniques

Question: What is one thing that limited speeds of older digital hardware?
Answer: prohibitively time consuming to process

Question: What does the higher speed do for the images produced?
Answer: a higher level of refinement

Question: How has film surpassed digital cameras?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is the highest ISO speed a film camera can reach?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What, besides a faster processor, prevents processing from happening when a photo is taken?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What could earlier generations of digital cameras store?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Which generation of cameras are capable of storing higher refined images?
Answer: Unanswerable