Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm pretty sure it's the other way around - CMOS noise characteristics are better than CCD? On 1 March 2010 13:17, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > George, > If I remember right, CCD sensors have better noise characteristics than > CMOS > ones. The major advantages of CMOS sensors are considerably lower power > usage and lower manufacturing costs. > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:34 AM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> > wrote: > > > Does anyone have any data > > if this is true for CCD sensors? > > > > It appears to me that CCD's simply do not offer > > the kind of high ISO performance that Cmos does. > > > > As far as I can tell > > the current (so called) medium format CCD sensors > > run about the the same sized sensor sites > > as the M9. > > > > Regards, > > George Lottermoser > > george at imagist.com > > http://www.imagist.com > > http://www.imagist.com/blog > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > On Feb 28, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > > > > And I'd not mind it if by then the sensor sites had been enlarged so I'm > >> not > >> getting 18 MP's but 12 and have a much higher useable iso range. As is > par > >> for the course right now. > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Daniel Tan Taniel.Dan at gmail.com