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The forgotten magic of CCD sensors: Why I won’t give them up!
The reality is that CCD sensors have all but disappeared from mainstream digital cameras. They are power-hungry, expensive to ...
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Super CCD
A type of CCD sensor from Fujifilm that is used in its digital cameras. Super CCD uses a honeycomb structure of octagon-shaped light sensors (photodiodes) at 45 degree angles rather than 90 degrees.
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Key inventors tell the history of sensors
Photo: Getty Images/DeadDuck Nobu Teranishi, Albert Theuwissen and Eric Fossum, who between them made key breakthroughs in ...
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Four Thirds system
A digital single lens reflex ... Using a large CCD with a 4:3 aspect ratio, the lens mount opening is twice the size of the CCD image circle. Because CCD sensors are set in slightly from the ...