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[OM] Re: Kodak has a big CCD -- 22 megapixels

Subject: [OM] Re: Kodak has a big CCD -- 22 megapixels
From: Skip Williams <om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:38:45 -0500
Interesting that the have the chip, but no product line to sell it as the DCS 
Pro-Back group has been disbanded.  Perhaps they're retreating to the OEM 
market?

Skip

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>Subject: [OM] Kodak has a big CCD -- 22 megapixels
>   From: Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>   Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:23:30 -0500
>     To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>I saw an article on page 68 of the January 2004 issue of the trade magazine 
>Photonics Spectra: "Eastman Kodak Co., Image Sensor Solutions, 22 million 
>pixel full-frame CCD Image Sensor".   I don't think this chip is newly 
>released, and the latest datasheet is dated July 2003.  The following is 
>partly from the article, partly from the datasheet.
>
>The KAF-22000CE sensor has a 36 by 48 mm sensitive area, which has twice the 
>area of a 35mm image.  The pixels are 9 microns square, in a 4080 by 5440 
>array.   The chip package is something like 2 by 2.5 inches overall 
>dimensions.  The linear dynamic range is 73 db, or 12.1 bits.  (Divide dynamic 
>range by 6 to get number of bits or stops.)  It takes 2.56 seconds to read an 
>image out.  There are no per-pixel lenses, so the incident angle of light on 
>CCD surface is essentially unconstrained; the article says that the chip 
>"produces stable color at incident angles up to 50 degrees".
>
>The article says that the sensor is aimed at the medium-format camera market.
>
>Joe Gwinn
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