Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was in the Semiconductor Industry...... Usually , the technology used to make a product rarely effects the way the device is used (SW) from the outside of the device.... Sure, there are some different "rules" or ways of making it work, but in general, the function and purpose and end goal determines the SW, not the technology..... "Trivial" is pretty relative.... The purpose of the SW is to take the data presented by the sensor output and format it to the memory location called the SDHC Card. In the process, the data may be filtered in different ways, JPEG'd ( which in itself is a special filter), or maybe transformed to another color or spatial system or a combination of any or all of these. Whether you use a CCD or a CMOS Image sensor, the process is the same. Implementation is different, but that is both the trivial ( difference) part as well as the "Secret Ingredients" part. I personally think Nikon has done a superb job with their "secret ingredients" in high ISO performance. Geoff,,,,, in your response, you actually agree with what I am saying, in the technical sense. More instructions to do more pixels is "trivial", It is really not different, just more of the same..... Using 2 processors rather than one is also a pretty "trivial" exercise and totally independent from the technology used to make the sensor.. " To provide a plain and neutral image, we do a lot of complex compensation, sensor corrections and lens vigentting corrections"... Would have been needed whether they used a CCD or a CMOS sensor, just "different" algorithms or implementations.......to achieve the image goal. I do not want to make it sound like all of this is easy.... it certainly is not. But don't go around thinking that because it is CCD or CMOS that there is massively more work to write the SW ( Actually FW, but who is going to be fussy in a name). for one over the other. It is the same goal in either case. It is just different. Frank Filippone Red735i at earthlink.net Do you work in the industry with direct experience? I don't, but I know enough that it's not trivial change.