No, t would waste a lot more materials on a manufacturing point of view and as a consequence, pice would sky rocket.
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, it would make more sense and waste less raw materials if the sensor was > a 36mm circular one. No longer any worries about tilted horizons. Image > formatting would be done entirely post, choosing whatever orientation you > wanted. Never did understand why we have to use round lenses to create > rectangular images, after all. > > Leftover pixels from rounding off the square sensor could be carried over to > the next sensor, or used in point and shoot models. > > <vbg> > > On Apr 26, 2009, at 07:16 , Mark Roberts wrote: > >> Sandy Harris wrote: >>> >>> Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Dario Bonazza wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I've never considered the square sensor as a credible option. >>>> >>>> The "square sensor" idea was ridiculous fantasy from the very beginning. >>> >>> It makes sense in terms of getting the most out of your lenses. >>> For any given criterion of what acceptable performance at the >>> edges, and any lens, you'll get a circular area in which the >>> lens is capable of that performance. A square sensor is >>> more efficient than any other rectangle at using that. >>>> >>>> From that point of view, it is an obvious optimisation. >>> >>> On the other hand, it may not be marketable, it would >>> need a different mirror/viewfinder assembly, and I have >>> no idea how it would affect sensor manufacturing cost. >> >> Yes, it would need a different mirror/viewfinder assembly. It would >> increase sensor cost significantly, for sensor area that wouldn't even be >> used most of the time (except when shooting in square format -- a rarity for >> most of us). A large cost increase for small benefit isn't even remotely >> practical or marketable. That's *why* it was always a ridiculous fantasy. > > Joseph McAllister > [email protected] > > http://gallery.me.com/jomac > http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html > > > > > > > -- > 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. > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille ---------------------- Photo: K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... Thinkpad: X23+UB,X60+UB Programing: D7 user (trying out D2007) -- 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.
