How much character can a CMOS sensor have?

[user237428934]

The chip itself is actually made in France. It's the terroir that counts. And the vintage. Will 2012 be a good year?

Cheers,

R.

Are you sure? Maybe it's from the same france that Hercule Poirot is from. 😀

 

[pieter]

I guess we should stick to discussing the color of the ME. 🙂

 

[user237428934]

Leica uses CCD from Kodak for the S3. Anything more to say?

No one needs high iso in such a camera. Everyone wanted high iso capabilty in an M camera. CCD and high iso is not possible. CMOS was the natural and only choice.

 

[mfunnell]

I'm not sure how best to unpack this statement. Is soul and character a result of being boutique or Western or unsuccessful at market? 🙄

I'm not quite sure how to unpack your question!

Obviously you can't be both boutique and successful - one necessarily precludes the other in au-courant sentiment. (The money to be made is while people still think you're boutique, but before they notice you becoming successful.)

"Western" versus "non-Western" is irrelevant to the subject: it might even be preferable to be "non-Western" as long as you're also unsuccessful. Hand-made in Indonesian Borneo out of recycled palm-fronds: that Just Works, even if the products don't. (Though it only Works for a while; see above.)

Making high-quality, affordable (big sin) products on an incredibly capable clean-room production line: in Japan, or (especially) China, or Germany, or Belgium - or Jakarta, for that matter (since modern Indonesia doesn't count) - not so much.

Get with the program!

...Mike

 

[EdwardKaraa]

CCD has no more character than a CMOS. The sensor character comes from the CFA, aka color filter array. This is what differentiates the color rendition from one sensor to another. Color density and hues of the CFA, and also quite important, how the demosaicing algorithms translate this info into a picture, this is the character.

 

[sanmich]

I guess we should stick to discussing the color of the ME. 🙂

Way too abstract.
The color of a camera is just something so evasive 🙂
back to topic...

 

[flimmerfilm]

No one needs high iso in such a camera. Everyone wanted high iso capabilty in an M camera. CCD and high iso is not possible. CMOS was the natural and only choice.

800 ISO is enough for me. So go for the M ....

 

[Roger Hicks]

Are you sure? Maybe it's from the same france that Hercule Poirot is from. 😀

Sacred blue, my brave! It is to make the little grey paint of the M-E a question important!

Cheers,

R.

 

[stevegoldenberg]

The sensor character comes from the CFA, aka color filter array. This is what differentiates the color rendition from one sensor to another. .

Agreed. The output of these two technologies must be massaged and processed from the raw Luminosity data into the photographic interpretation of the engineers.

With that said, I've used the Canon 5D for six years and the character and quality of those images exceptional. I believe that's because the Canon engineers chose a week aliasing filter for that camera. Coupled with Zeiss glass on that body the character is close to my M9 the sameness lens.