6D - sensor measurements and comparison with other Canon FF

Thierry Legault wrote:

The banding crops are just here to give an idea of the intensity and shape of banding in comparison with other cameras. Balck point level is just an offset and in Iris, one can adjust the black and white levels at any values, to make the background darker or brighter as desired.

You know, in astronomy with CCD cameras we are used to deal with raw 16 bits files and offset frames and dark frames. And we are doing that since more than 20 years now, long time before the first consumer digital camera appeared

I think that Canon uses the masked photosites to decrease the banding level, but my tests show that to significantly decrease it furthermore, you would need hundreds of masked lines and columns, instead of a few dozens currently. This is clearly not the good solution.