RE: Advances in CCD to go with Canon

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From: Sil Horwitz (silh@earthlink.net)
Date: 09/12/00-09:34:25 PM Z


At 2000/09/12 08:59 PM -0500, Jamie wrote:
>Phillips is making a great CCD chip right now which is used in the leaf
and megavision camera >backs,and probably others.

They may be, but CCD chips are history - just wait about 6 months. For full
details, see:
http://www.rsc.rockwell.com/html/cmos.html (If you do visit that page, be
prepared for some really heavy technical reading! Very interesting, even if
one doesn't understand it all.)

Interestingly, and opposite to what I had thought and others have noted,
CMOS technology is less noisy than CCD, and much, much less expensive.
There already are CMOS InfraRed chips, so how long will it be for UV? I'm
still looking forward to some UV transistorized device that you can lay
right on an alternative photographic material, connected to your computer,
which will expose the material directly without an intermediate film or
paper to get in the way. How about that? It is very possible.

Sil Horwitz, FPSA
Technical Editor, PSA Journal
teched@psa-photo.org
silh@earthlink.net
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