What is the Efficiency of APS-C Sensor Photo Sites for Gathering Photons?

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Karl Gnter Wnsch
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Re: What is the Efficiency of APS-C Sensor Photo Sites for Gathering Photons?
In reply to 4thnebula, 4 months ago

4thnebula wrote:

I would expect current efficiency is low (20% of photons recorded). This is just a non-engineer/non-physicist guess.

And it happens to be wrong. Current models already operate at or above 45% QE... For an in depth analysis and putting the QE into context read:

http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/digital.sensor.performance.summary/

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