How much character can a CMOS sensor have?

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? :rolleyes:
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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