> I'd love for one day to have sensors that are so light sensitive that ISO is > increased by having little doors on the front of each photosite open up to > allow more area to be exposed. Maybe controlled by miniature hamsters. It > would be a CHOS sensor: Complementary Hamster-Operated > Semiconductor.
there's probably some helpful technology crossover available from the bottled water industry. When I was in France last month a taxi driver took me past the Quézac spring and bottling plant. Quézac is a very pleasant water, with very tiny natural bubbles - much smaller than Perrier, for example. I learned that they take the bubbles out, clean the water, then put the bubbles back in during the bottling process. I imagine there must be very large arrays of tiny little pigeonholes in the plant for the temporary bubble storage - I'm sure it wouldn't too difficult to convert these into photo sensors of the type you describe. Incidentally, bubble memory was very popular in computing about 30 or so years ago, so it isn't the first time this technology has been used for digital applications. Cheers! Bobble -- 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.
