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Subject: [OM] OT Kodak has a big CCD -- 22 megapixels: now fairchild 84Mpixel
From: Tim Hughes <timhughes@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:41:15 -0800 (PST)
The largest CCD's I have seen advertised, are the idustrial (spy sattelite etc) 
ones from
Fairchild. 84Mpixel. and 8*8cm. see 
http://www.fairchildimaging.com/main/documents/ccd595.pdf
Interestingly they claim 100% pixel fill factor, this seems unlikely, unless 
they stack the
electronics vertically and even then you need metalization for power??

With such a huge analog chip the yield must be low so only the 
government/military etc can
probably afford these. For discussion of CCD's for more varied applications, 
other than consumer
cameras see : http://www.not.iac.es/CCD-world/archive/

The likely long readout time, probably means it could only be used in a studio 
application. It
would also require a a rotating color filter etc as it does not have any on 
chip color filters. 

Regards,
Tim Hughes

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