John Thompson wrote:
> Forgive my ignorance, I have only just joined this list. What is cmos?
>
> >The Nikon stand said they had no intention of going down the cmos road as it
> >wasn't good enough from an image quality point of view????!
>
John,
Here's a brief description from Webopedia.com...
CMOS
Abbreviation of complementary metal oxide
semiconductor. Pronounced see-moss, CMOS is a widely used type of semiconductor.
CMOS semiconductors
use both NMOS (negative polarity) and PMOS (positive
polarity) circuits. Since only one of the circuit types is on at any given time,
CMOS chips require less power
than chips using just one type of transistor. This
makes them particularly attractive for use in battery-powered devices, such as
portable computers. Personal computers
also contain a small amount of battery-powered CMOS
memory to hold the date, time, and system setup parameters.
Regards,
Don
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