Not really. While you can pack rectangular sensors at 100% efficiency, you don't lose that much using circular sensors - the obvious layout only wastes a little less than 10% of the total area. and that's if you assume infinite wafer sizes - for current wafer sizes losses at the edge are going to be at least as much. It's even possible that for some wafer sizes a circular sensor results in less area wastage.
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:03:00PM +0200, Thibouille wrote: > No, t would waste a lot more materials on a manufacturing point of > view and as a consequence, pice would sky rocket. > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> wrote: > > Yes, it would make more sense and waste less raw materials if the sensor was > > a 36mm circular one. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
