> Mark Roberts wrote:
> From what I gathered from reading Nikon's extensive description of the
> LABCAST sensor, it *is* basically a CMOS sensor in terms of
> architecture and function,but since it's made using junction Field
> Effect Transistors instead of Metal Oxide Field Effect Transistors
> they are technically correct in not calling it a CMOS sensor.
>
> They way it functions is basically the same as a CMOS sensor (each
> pixel has its own charge-to-voltage converter and the A-D conversion
> is done by other on-chip circuits) and completely different from a CCD
> (charge transferred to busses and carried off-chip before being
> converted to a voltage then further separate chips perform A-D
> conversion).
>
>
Thanks for that Mark. Electronics and my brain have a hard time co existing.:-)
Dave Brooks
