I highly doubt that but would like to be proven wrong, please do :) On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:39 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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