Hi Jono,
Below is a link to a 2008 article from Kodak announcing Kodak's foray into making a new type CMOS sensor based on what appears (according to them) a new design that has some (many) of the advantages of CCD. Kodak actually made their first small CMOS sensors way back in 2001. The article is quite simple and understandable for us "lugheads" (which at this point, I'm only including myself in this group )
Within that article is a link to preliminary 2008 Kodak article entitiled Image Sensors 101: CMOS vs CCD . Although it relates to smaller sensors, it appears Kodak feels the gap between CMOS and CCD is closing. This article is very basic and doesn't contain much info.
Assuming this and more current technology based on similar ideas becomes available, maybe we'll see the higher ISO performing CMOS chips incorporated into cameras like the S2 and other DMF bodies sometime in the future.
Still this doesn't answer the other question of CMOS without AA filters. I'm in the dark about that one.
OK, here is the link to the main article (newer type of CMOS):
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...+make+a+CMOS+sensor?&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Now here is the link to "Image Sensors 101: CMOS vs CCD":
http://pluggedin.kodak.com/post/?id=664294
Dave (D&A)
Below is a link to a 2008 article from Kodak announcing Kodak's foray into making a new type CMOS sensor based on what appears (according to them) a new design that has some (many) of the advantages of CCD. Kodak actually made their first small CMOS sensors way back in 2001. The article is quite simple and understandable for us "lugheads" (which at this point, I'm only including myself in this group )
Within that article is a link to preliminary 2008 Kodak article entitiled Image Sensors 101: CMOS vs CCD . Although it relates to smaller sensors, it appears Kodak feels the gap between CMOS and CCD is closing. This article is very basic and doesn't contain much info.
Assuming this and more current technology based on similar ideas becomes available, maybe we'll see the higher ISO performing CMOS chips incorporated into cameras like the S2 and other DMF bodies sometime in the future.
Still this doesn't answer the other question of CMOS without AA filters. I'm in the dark about that one.
OK, here is the link to the main article (newer type of CMOS):
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...+make+a+CMOS+sensor?&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Now here is the link to "Image Sensors 101: CMOS vs CCD":
http://pluggedin.kodak.com/post/?id=664294
Dave (D&A)