1. An electronic imaging system, said system including a camera for (1) sensing and digitizing images and (2) writing said digitized images onto a storage media; said camera including: a two dimensional thin film photosensor array for reading a pattern of information corresponding to an image incident thereupon and generating detectable electrical signals corresponding thereto; said array including a plurality of small area photoresponsive elements, each of said elements capable of photogenerating an electrical signal in response to illumination incident thereupon and including at least one layer of a semiconductor alloy material chosen from the group consisting essentially of: amorphous silicon alloy materials, amorphous germaium alloy materials, amorphous silicon carbon alloy materials and amorphous silicon germanium alloy materials; lens means for optically projecting a pattern of information corresponding to an image onto said photosensor array; means for triggering the reading of the pattern of information projected onto said photosensor array; means for storing said detectable electrical signals generated by said photosensor array, said storing means including optical storage media; and means for writing said detectable electrical signals onto said storing means.