Thanks for the education, all who replied. I may not be wiser, but I am better informed.
John On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:48:49 +0100, Digital Image Studio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28/09/06, Lucas Rijnders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The obvious solution would be to do away with these cavities, and have >> the >> photosensitive part of the sensor flush with the surface. Apparently >> this >> is not feasible or desireable. Does anyone know why? > > Very very basically, there has to be depth to the photo sensor, that's > the nature of current sensor technology and if they removed the > condenser lens then the sensitivity would fall as not all of the pixel > area is light sensitive. They can however offset the condenser lenses > (as they have done in the case of the Leica M8 sensor) in order to > provide a compromise response between rays that hit the sensor > perpendicularly and those at the most acute angle. > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
