On Jan 24, 2012, at 11:10 AM, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Paul Stenquist > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sensor arrays are used on large format backs. I watched a shooter work with >> a 4 x 5 camera and a digital back tethered to a computer. The complete >> image, without gaps, resolved almost immediately on the monitor screen. I >> don't know if the back was gap free or if software corrections were made. >> But the results were outstanding. > > You're sure it was a mosaic of sensors, and not a scanning back?
Yes, the shooter told me it was a four-sensor array. This was about a dozen years ago. We were shooting a Dodge Nascar vehicle in a Michigan studio. > > It's possible that someone's come up with gapless packaging for > sensors, but in the photographs of the Pan-STARRS focal plane, you can > see the "blind" margin at each edge of the chips. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
