I'm sure Olympus will be forced to stay with full-frame transfer. Since
they're working with a smaller area to begin with they already have
worse noise problems than the competition. Moving to interline transfer
would just make matters worse.
But who knows. The 4/3 sensor is small in the full-frame league but it
would be a monster in the interline league. If they decided that they
really couldn't compete on noise with the likes of a 35mm size Canon
CMOS sensor maybe they'd decide to simply change the market. An
interline sensor of 4/3 size would be a unique animal except for the
Sony DSC-R1 which has an APS size CMOS interline sensor and lacks only
interchangeable lenses to be a really interesting camera.
As the owner of an A1 I can attest that live view is a thing that's hard
to get out of your head once you get used to it. But the A1 only has a
2/3 size sensor and is almost unusable above ISO 200 and isn't
particulary quiet there either.
Chuck Norcutt
Wiliam Wagenaar wrote:
> Hello Fellow Olympoids,
>
> One thing I miss in all discussions at the moment which was quite an
> issue when the E-1 was originally introduced is the Full-Frame Transfer
> CCD (of same size and mpix). With this technology each pixel can be
> bigger than on an Interlaced CCD, because the electric conductors are
> behind the light-sensitive layer and not between the rows of pixels.
>
> Is this technology continued in the newer bodies (E-300, 330 and 500)?
> Will it be continued in the bodies that we may expect soon?
> Or is this technology abandoned after the E-1?
>
> I believe that this difference in design could make a difference (to
> some degree) for the noise issues with the E-1. The individual pixels
> could be bigger than on another CCD with the interlaced technology. I
> don't know how much the difference in pixel size effectively is, but it
> should be possible to make a 4/3 CCD with less noise than the E-1 shows.
>
> Any opinions? Khen?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Wiliam
>
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