Skip to main content

All Questions

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
2 votes
2 answers
134 views

Does small sensor/pixel has an upper limit of dynamic range?

It is from a friend that I heard: Cellphone cameras, due to their small sensor size, can have at most 11 stops of dynamic range (I did not ask too much about where that came from or what source is ...
Amarth Gûl's user avatar
4 votes
4 answers
483 views

Why are there no digital large format photographic imaging sensors using the TFT technology from medical x ray imaging?

Recently I witnessed an x ray imaging of an entire thorax, and I was pretty sure it was a film cassette with analogue film that was used, but was taught that it was a digital sensor. This sensor had ...
Chris's user avatar
  • 971
1 vote
2 answers
130 views

Same mfg process = same performance in FF vs. cropped sensor?

I've seen generalizations that full-frame sensors tend to exhibit better low-light performance and dynamic range than a cropped-sensor specifically because they tend to use larger photosites that ...
D. Lambert's user avatar
  • 10.5k
7 votes
1 answer
2k views

what's the relation between sensor size and image quality (noise, dynamic range)?

I'm reading this description on sensor size: Digital compact cameras have substantially smaller sensors offering a similar number of pixels. As a consequence, the pixels are much smaller, which ...
cody's user avatar
  • 285