John Francis wrote: >On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 12:55:10PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote: >> John Francis wrote: >> >> >I'd discount anything to do with the sensor (including using floating >> >point to store values) simply because it's supposedly a difference >> >between the K10D and other cameras using the same sensor. >> >> You'd be wrong to discount this because of commonality of the sensor: >> The output of CCD sensors is analog, so you can have all kinds of >> variations of processing - floating point, 12-bit, 16-bit, 48-bit, >> etc. - while using the same sensor. As has been pointed out, Nikon >> uses the same sensor in the D200 and D80 but different A-D conversion >> and processing in the two cameras. > >I think you'll find that the Sony part numbers for the sensors used in >the D200 and D80 are, in fact, different.
Right. Because the one in the D80 comes with the standard Sony A-D in a single module. -- Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com 412-687-2835 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
