That is what Fujifilm has done with their DSLR and it allows a wider
dynamic range. It does not seem to work on the smaller sensors. At
any rate it is the tiny sensor cameras that have the limited dynamic
range. The DSLRs all have a dynamic range that exceeds that of color
slide film and some are not far from color negative film.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On May 5, 2007, at 5:47 PM, Jim Couch wrote:
> Good point. I have often thought that instead of adding more and more
> pixels, that they could use the photosites and split them up
> between say
> shadows and highlights to increase the dynamic range. I thought it
> would
> be a great idea (and a few manufacturers have started to do something
> like this) and would make for great cameras, but I am guessing it
> would
> never sell. why buy a mere 10mp camera with fantastic dynamic range
> when
> you can have 30 bazillion mega pixels of blocked up shadows an blown
> highlights!
>
> I suspect that one reason is that folks might actually realize how
> narrow the dynamic range of a typical digital camera really is!
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