View Full Version : How big is a 2/3 inch CCD? It's not 2/3 of an inch!


Jeff Donald
October 7th, 2002, 06:07 AM
I have to answer this question a great deal in my digital photography classes I teach. I noticed that Digital Photography Review has done a great article on this topic. Visit them here

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0210/02100402sensorsizes.asp

There is a convienent chart at the bottom of the article that list all the common sizes.

Jeff

Chris Hurd
October 7th, 2002, 07:51 AM
Many thanks, Jeff...

DP Review is such an informative site, my favorite of all the digicam resource/review sites out there. I think it's interesting that Canon has introduced a CMOS chip with the "same size image plane as 35mm film" on the new 11-megapixel EOS-1DS.

Adrian Douglas
October 7th, 2002, 06:30 PM
Megapixel at megaprice, at least outside of the US. You're looking at approx AUD$18000 for one of these babies. At least they finally realised more realistic focal lengths for digital cameras.