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Canon EOS 5D Mark II Review: 3. What's New: Digital Photography Review They state, that the gaps became smaller compared to the original 5D. Also they mention, that the 50D has a gap-less design. So the gap-sizes seem indeed to vary across different camera models. But if all kinds of sensors have a QE of 55% at a certain wavelength, I interpret this as an indication that often the same semiconductor material is used and the QE is just a property of this material and not the whole sensor with all its microlenses and complex engineering-stuff. But I may be wrong. Quote:
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Couldn't you just use larger pixels while in video mode? It seems like a straightforward way to optimize it. If you increased the pixel size so that the data was being read as a 2 or 4 megapixel video image it seems like it would a. increase light sensitivity and b. severely reduce the aliasing common with high pixel images.
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My understanding is that you don't literally have to read every point of data on the sensor as a pixel. You can choose instead to use an area with several physical points of sensor data as a single pixel. For example, you could read every 10x10 points on the sensor as 1 pixel for your image. Generally the bigger the pixel the better low light performance. Additionally, lowering the image size to 2-4 megapixels can also significantly lower aliasing artifacts.
Well it sounds like a win-win anyway, but camera manufacturers have been shy to go down this route, so there may be a good reason it hasn't been implemented. But it still sounds logical to me, or am I nuts? |
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I thought this was being done in most cameras and camcorders anyway. There's a single read operation from the sensor and then compression is applied to raw sensor data to give us the final image. The larger pixel idea would be applied after the raw sensor data was read.
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Although a 10x10 pixel area might be a bit large. That would mean that to get a 1920x1080 image, you'd be working with roughly a 220mp sensor! |
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I initially understood your idea, that the sensor gets designed in a way, that multiple pixels can become connected to additional operational amplifier circuits, which generate the average values in an analog way, and only the output of these additional circuits gets read out. |
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