Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> Subject: RE: [Leica] do your homework, please! >Erwin, I do not suggest that you are wrong from an image >standpoint, but the real issue to the manufacturer of the >CCD is to keep abreast of the technology of optimal cost. >This would suggest that smaller is usually cheaper. >CCD imagers will get smaller, regardless of LPM as >geometries of IC's gets smaller. As Jim Brick and I have explained at length, this is simply wrong. There are physical limits to CCD pixel size that have *ALREADY* been reached. Absent radically different CCD technologies (e.g. so-called hyperdynamic CCDs, still in experimental form), one cannot make the pixels smaller without major dynamic range problems. For this reason the current push is to learn how to make *larger* CCDs with pixel sizes comparable to the current generation of devices. - -Alexey