Mark Stringer wrote: >A new super-sensor would be great but it does not seem to fulfill the seer's >vision of "Mid-September ...forehead-slapping amongst the competition in >the DSLR world." nor does it fit with "...not a single DSLR out there >at any price, including ones using the same sensor, have it." This implies >it is an in-production sensor and the "improvement" could have already been >done by someone.
One of the theoretical advantages of CCD, versus CMOS, sensors is that the output of a CCD is analog, so it's possible to use different/improved A-D converters. In most cases, camera makers economize by using the A-D converter designed my the CCD manufacturer. But not always: Nikon designed their own A-D converter for the D200 (Nikon's D80 and Sony's A100 use the Sony D-A converter made for the chip by Sony). -- Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com 412-687-2835 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
