On 14 Nov 2004 at 11:27, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > anyone know the dimensions of the active area of > the sensor? it would be simple to calculate. > > I thought someone said it was 1.55 here a long > time ago when the camera came out.
If it uses the same sensor as the *ist D (which I believe has been reported) then 28.4mm diagonal, therefore it's a 1.52x crop factor, close enough to 1.5 http://www.sony.net/Products/SC-HP/cx_news/vol28/pdf/icx413np.pdf Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998

