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Bring Back Super CCD Technology!

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Tom Schum
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Re: Bring Back Super CCD Technology!
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3Percent wrote:

I think a modern version of the Super CCD would do it much better with even higher quality images. And of course it would be CMOS, not CCD, so it would apply just as well for video as it does stills.

If the sensor is CMOS, you get the advantages of ten years of CMOS camera sensor development.  To make it as nice as a CCD, one would have to replace the modern color filter array with the filters that were used on CCD sensors.  This would lose you at least a stop of sensitivity, but you would get back to the image quality that CCDs are known for.

One poster mentioned the Leica M11.  Maybe Leica did this.

I have a Sigma fp L, which uses the same sensor as the Leica M11, but with standard color filters and micro-lenses (if there are any).  Sigma applies their own color science or color technology to the data and gets great results, in my opinion.  To get this I have to use their free raw developer, Sigma Photo Professional.  It is very computation-intensive and you would want a modern high speed computer to run it on.

But changing back to CCD color filters as used in the old Fujis would definitely get you there!

Will anybody do this?  I wish it were so, but realistically my guess is no.  The costs would be high, and the benefits would be niche.  I'd love to see it in a Fuji camera, or any camera for that matter.

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