John Francis wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 09:24:20AM +0200, Jostein ?ksne wrote: > >>AFAIK, many of the MedF digitals achieve larger sensors by combining >>more than one CCD. When doubling the area of a sensor means a tenfold >>increase in cost it makes me wonder what kind of potential there may >>be for cost reduction in the surrounding circuitry. > > > None, to all intents and purposes. > If you look at the amount of support circuitry on a sensor > (other than the per-pixel stuff, which needs to be there > no matter hom many individual pieces the sensor is made of) > there's hardly any - a few latches, and the A-to-D logic. > Having, one, two, or four copies of those circuits is at > most going to add a few pennies to the total cost.
I thought a few pennies was the reason we can't have a fully functional aperture ring on the DSLRs. > > >>Aligning two CCDs comes with it's own set of problems, I guess. >> >>Jostein >> >> >> >>On 8/29/06, Takeshita K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Nevertheless, my understanding is that the cost of the FF size >>>sensors is at least 10 times (or more) that of the APS sized one, >>>and this gap is not going to narrow any time soon. >> >>-- >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>[email protected] >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
