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I sure do wish someone would work on improving the voice quality of my cell phone. That would be a touch more useful, I think.
 
Graystar said:
I sure do wish someone would work on improving the voice quality of
my cell phone. That would be a touch more useful, I think.
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No, those guys are over trying to figure out a way to add cellphone capability to your DSLR. ;-)

What's that word? Convergence?

Greg
 
It all sounds too good to be true -

Quantaum efficiency - 10x increase
Dark current - 30x reduction

But the statement that is repeated often is ".....that ultimately results in CMOS imaging performance that rivals that available from CCD image sensors". Is it a case that very small CMOS sensors traditionally have very poor performance compared to CCDs of similar size? We all know that CMOS sensors in DSLRs have (at least)equal performance to CCDs. It probably gets down to the ratio of realestate used by associated circuitry in comparison to light-catching elements.

Can someone enlighten me on this?

Cheers
 
Oddly enough, it's not on Kodak PR webpage.

Very high likelyhood it's a hoax.
 
Graystar said:
I sure do wish someone would work on improving the voice quality of
my cell phone. That would be a touch more useful, I think.
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I've found that the little nerdy b(*$ %&# and his 5,000 friends only like to hang out in town and on the interstate.

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Kevin,

Great pointer! (I meant the official one.)
I stand corrected.

ccs_hello
 
So if this sensor measures the absence of light instead of the usual way...would this mean clean shadows & noise in the highlights?

Yeah, I doubt it too, but I don't know enough of the theory to be able to back up an answer either way.
 
Since the way it work is using a filter with panchromatic pixels, is the reverse polarity design also applicable to CCD?
 
According to the official news release, this new technology could potentially improve the sensitivity of sensor by 1 to 2 stops. So, by itself, I wouldn't think it would be that much of a revolution. On the other hand, if some purists really conjure up a new sensor chip with this new technology, at 2/3", no more than 6 mp, a p&s with practically clean images up to ISO 1600 (similar to the D40 performance) would be very possible.

Is it too much to ask for?

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Harry
 
I wonder how this works, exactly.

Conventional sensors work by the photoelectric effect (explained by Einstein in his 1905 paper for which he won the Nobel Prize).

So what physical principles are Kodak exploiting in their approach. The press release is remarkably unforthcoming.
Frank43 said:
See:

http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1202178774.html

It measures only 1/4" and is aimed at cameras in cell phones.

I would think that Superzoom digicams could benefit from this
technologyl.

Frank

It seems to me that Imaging-resource has a more complete news
coverage than dpreview.
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DMillier said:
I wonder how this works, exactly.

Conventional sensors work by the photoelectric effect (explained by
Einstein in his 1905 paper for which he won the Nobel Prize).

So what physical principles are Kodak exploiting in their approach.
The press release is remarkably unforthcoming.
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Without the ISSCC paper publically available yet to non attendees of the conference, my interpretation of the press release is that the same principles still apply. However, instead of confining and collecting the photogenerated electrons, they're doing the same with the other half of the photogenerated carrier pair, the holes. I'm guessing they're working with holes and leveraging some of the advantages of pFET-based pixel electronics.

David
 
Kodak, please scale it up to 36 x 24 mm, then stick it in something like this,







I'll shove the whole thing into my Nikon F6, and shoot happily ever after (knowing that I won't ever need to upgrade my DSLR every three years).

Cheers

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