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What caught my eye was the headline about CCDs as successors to video camera tubes. Charge-coupled devices being, of course, the sensor technology now used by e
by Sharlin 2y ago
What caught my eye was the headline about CCDs as successors to video camera tubes. Charge-coupled devices being, of course, the sensor technology now used by essentially all of the billions of digital cameras on the planet.
- MBCook 2y agoHasn’t basically everyone switch from CCD to CMOS sensors these days? I don’t know the technical difference other than what each stands for.
- Sharlin 2y agoOops, indeed. I got the two mixed up.
- rbanffy 2y agoIt’s kind of funny CCDs had a full product life cycle since that magazine cover.
- Sharlin 2y agoThey see a plenty of use in professional and scientific contexts, so it’s not like their life is over. Indeed the largest digital camera sensor ever, the 3.2 gigapixel imager installed in the soon-to-be-online Vera Rubin Observatory, is CCD. CMOS won out in consumer products because of lower cost and power consumption. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory