Oly Interview....

hammer_400 · 26th January 2006

http://www.quesabesde.com/noticias/O...Nada,1_en_2256

interesting read.. esp re liveMOS sensor

hammer_400 · 27th January 2006

another Oly interview...

http://www.digitalcamerainfo.com/con...t-Olympus-.htm

nightpiper · 27th January 2006

after going thru the 2nd interview, i soptted something quite interesting. here's the quote:

Pelkowski: Exactly. MOS is Metal Oxide Semiconductor. Of course you’ve heard of CMOS that Canon’s using in their products and some other manufacturers use. We’re calling it a Live-MOS sensor, but to answer your question it’s technically an NMOS sensor, which I believe stands for Negative-type Metal Oxide Semiconductor chip. This type of sensor, though, facilitates and complements the live view function. You could use a CCD in this camera for capture and live view in B mode, but those are interlaced chips, and it makes the image kind of jaggy and not that fluid when you’re panning the camera. We’ve always said in the past when people asked us, “Are you going to stay with the Kodak? Are you going to stick with CCDs?” we’ve always said that we’re going to use the type of chip that’s best for the particular application.

does that mean the NMOS is also FFT instead of interlace? any news on this? the E330 is getting more & more interesting.

selamatlzh · 27th January 2006

"The E-330 has a newly developed image sensor that we call the live MOS sensor -the FFT CCD can't show the live view."

Does it mean that the new one is not FFT

wind30 · 28th January 2006

nmos just means that they do not use Pmos transistors. Pmos transistors sits in a PWELL which takes space so I guess by using nmos only, they free up more space for light detection. They still have to put the nmos somewhere so I don't think it will be FULL FRAME like the kodak sensor though.

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nightpiper Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 1,798	after going thru the 2nd interview, i soptted something quite interesting. here's the quote: Pelkowski: Exactly. MOS is Metal Oxide Semiconductor. Of course you’ve heard of CMOS that Canon’s using in their products and some other manufacturers use. We’re calling it a Live-MOS sensor, but to answer your question it’s technically an NMOS sensor, which I believe stands for Negative-type Metal Oxide Semiconductor chip. This type of sensor, though, facilitates and complements the live view function. You could use a CCD in this camera for capture and live view in B mode, but those are interlaced chips, and it makes the image kind of jaggy and not that fluid when you’re panning the camera. We’ve always said in the past when people asked us, “Are you going to stay with the Kodak? Are you going to stick with CCDs?” we’ve always said that we’re going to use the type of chip that’s best for the particular application. does that mean the NMOS is also FFT instead of interlace? any news on this? the E330 is getting more & more interesting.