Rob Studdert wrote:
Yeah, I guess I was stretching things a bit when I said 30 years... I didn't actually know when exactly the first CCD camera, or the CCDs as we know them today, were introduced, but I knew it was some years after the basic principle emerged.On 15 Dec 2004 at 23:28, Toralf Lund wrote:
I guess you have a point. However, a CCD is a very specific piece of equipment and "transistorized products" a vast field of products, so your analogy isn't entirely valid. Also, I really don't think CCDs have been changed much, although as someone else pointed out, production cost and quality has improved a lot.
Well your comment "The CCD technology is some 30 years old.." was referring to the early days of the development CCDs, the first produced featured a staggering 64 mono pixels :-)
The first actual in camera application was 1980.
The company I work for started making products based on linear CCDs not too different from the ones used today, some time in the late 80s (I forget the exact year)...
http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-22/h1.html
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