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Bring Back Super CCD Technology!

Started 10 months ago | Discussions thread
3Percent
OP 3Percent Senior Member • Posts: 1,048
No worries at all! And some clarification as it appears its needed

Tim van der Leeuw wrote:

3Percent wrote:

Tim van der Leeuw wrote:

If I correctly remember from what I've read about the difference between CMOS and CCD sensors, CMOS can be read out much faster than CCD?

And can be read out continuously, I believe.

I'm not sure on the details anymore.

But from what I recall, in effect CCD is not as suitable for film, or for continuous EVF / LCD display, due to the different way it works.

Hi Tim, I addressed this:

" 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 need to be CMOS, not CCD, so it would apply just as well for video as it does stills. "

SORRY!

I completely overlooked this when reading your post!

😳

But when a SuperCCD is a CMOS it's not a SuperCCD anymore... And so I latched on to the "CCD" part of it and overlooked that bit.

Right right, I'm talking about a modern version using the technology of dual pixels, one large one small, similar to the Super CCD.

I didn't mean to imply using a newer CCD sensor. I mean reincarnating the pixel technology in a new CMOS platform. Not sure how many people understand what the S5's sensor really did, but it wouldn't surprise me either. It wasn't very well explained in online literature.

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