William Robb wrote: >From: "Jack Davis" > >> I'm wondering about the noise control with a 14mp APS sensor. >> Am anxious to begin learning about it. (hope the price estimate is >> really high). <LoL> > >IIRC, CMOS sensors are inherently less noisy than CCDs. >I could have it backwards though.
You've got it right. For now. A few years ago it *was* the other way around: CCD was generally much less noisy than CMOS. That reversed with the advance of technology. I suppose it could do so again (an arms race kind of scenario), but CMOS is likely to always be less expensive to produce. But I note with interest that even Canon, the acknowledged master of CMOS sensors, hasn't tried to make pixels small enough to cram 14 million of them into APS-C. I'll be happy if Pentax pulls off a coup. But my money's staying in my pocket until after the camera's been on the market for a while and I've had a chance to examine the results carefully. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
