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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Let's talk sensor...

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Tom said:
is this for real?
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Yes. Back illumination has been around for a long time for CCDs. Everyone has been trying to get it to work for CMOS image sensors, but the costs were always too high for volume production (like many sensor technologies).

The first to develop it was TSMC (the foundry for Omnivision). On May 27 they made a breakthrough by getting the manufacturing process under such strict control that the yield is high enough and costs low enough for volume manufacturing. The first products to get it will be mobile phone cameras, of course, since they are the cash cow. Hopefully larger sensors will follow soon after.

Sony announced theirs just a few weeks later.
 
"Backlit" in this case means where the light from the image enters the photodiode relative to the substrate of the sensor. The improvement in sensitivity is due to a shorter path through the silicon, and no underlying conductors (wiring) absorbing or reflecting photons. No light is generated be the sensor or any of its components.
 
I think Epic should be a differen't sensor size than RedOne because RedOne is going to be hardware/sensor upgradeable, and Scarlet is 2/3 inch sensor size. If Epics sensor is the same size as Redone but solid in the way Redone was promissed, (without 1k resolution more) then Redone is the Bcam? If it was 4:3, Vistavision or something more in size, then were talking!:)
 
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