On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 12:55:10PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote: > John Francis wrote: > > >I'd discount anything to do with the sensor (including using floating > >point to store values) simply because it's supposedly a difference > >between the K10D and other cameras using the same sensor. > > You'd be wrong to discount this because of commonality of the sensor: > The output of CCD sensors is analog, so you can have all kinds of > variations of processing - floating point, 12-bit, 16-bit, 48-bit, > etc. - while using the same sensor. As has been pointed out, Nikon > uses the same sensor in the D200 and D80 but different A-D conversion > and processing in the two cameras.
I think you'll find that the Sony part numbers for the sensors used in the D200 and D80 are, in fact, different. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
