CMOS v. CCD

mike29596 · Aug 17, 2001

I am not a Canon ower, yet. I do own an Olympus E-10.

I was looking for a smaller, high-quality, compact camera to use as an everyday piece.

Question: why hasn't Canon used CMOS sensors in their compact cameras? If they are as good as they say, and I am sure easier to manufacture in smaller sizes (already used in video cameras), then why not?

Just curious.

Mike

eL47288 · Aug 18, 2001

CMOS is less power consumption, but also lower quality, resolution and sensitivity. The manufacturing process is not as mature as for CCD.

This covers pretty well everything involved. (el)
http://www.howstuffworks.com/digital-camera.htm

Mike I said:
I am not a Canon ower, yet. I do own an Olympus E-10.

I was looking for a smaller, high-quality, compact camera to use as
an everyday piece.

Question: why hasn't Canon used CMOS sensors in their compact
cameras? If they are as good as they say, and I am sure easier to
manufacture in smaller sizes (already used in video cameras), then
why not?

Just curious.

Mike

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