Hi Keith, On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:09:51 -0800, Keith Whaley wrote:
>Speaking of which, could someone please tell me about why CCD sensor >sizes are shown as a fraction. >For instance, 1/2.7 inch. >This is, of course, reducible to 0.3704". Roughly. >Which represents what? The area of the chip? 0.3704 square inches? Or, >inches square? I am not 100% sure, but based on the values I have seen and other data on the same chips I think it is the DIAGONAL of the chip in inches. So your 1/2.7" = 0.3704" would be about 9.4 mm for us metrics :-) >Why make a fraction out of it, whatever "it" is? Beats me, same as still using inches does ... Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery
