Canon is showing off a new CMOS sensor which it won’t really explain, but it compares the sensor to an EMCCD (3 chip) camera. The differences are amazing for color acquisition.
Once this tech becomes quanitatively measureable, it will likely push EMCCD technology into the dust bin – but, as with all of these developments, it’s not here for us to buy just yet…
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5 responses to “The End of EMCCD is Near”
Hmmm. I’ll believe that when I actually demo it. 🙂
Ah too true!
The demo pics sure look good tho…
That’s pretty wild … I would like to see more data on how it performs, and whether you can do things like single photon counting. It seems like cameras must be getting close to theoretical performance limits – I wouldn’t have thought you can do that much better than the best EMCCDs and sCMOS cameras currently available.
Agreed – it looks like one of the simplest ways they do this in the kodak is just using a 24um pixel size on the full frame sensor. Yeah it’s lower res but heck it’s good enough to match HD (1280×1024), isn’t that good enough for most general use work? Esp if the difference is high res + no signal vs. low res+ decent signal.
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