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[OM] Re: No E-1 Successor Yet?

Subject: [OM] Re: No E-1 Successor Yet?
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 08:57:18 +1100

On 29/01/2006, at 3:28 AM, Winsor Crosby wrote:

> I don't think you can generalize very much about sensors or their
> design. The CMOS advantage seems to be the ability to put noise
> reduction on the sensor itself. The CCD is inherently quieter without
> noise reduction because of the significantly higher fill factor, the
> actual percentage of the pixel pitch that is covered with light
> sensitive material. A major goal of the CMOS designs used by Nikon
> are primarily to get the data off the sensor so that they can get 8
> frames per second. Some of that high speed design was used on the CCD
> in the D200 CCD which has 5 fps and a quieter sensor than the CMOS in
> the D2X. The FujiFilm F10 and F11 cameras use CCD designs and are
> several stops quieter in the digital noise department than the
> competition. It is the cleverness of execution that counts.

Fair point, but that does beg the question - given that Panasonic  
have taken so much criticism for so long over this 'problem' why  
didn't they execute better, earlier?
AndrewF

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