Sony's new curved image sensors could shake up the whole camera industry

Re:Sony's new curved image sensors could shake up the whole ... by djrogers on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:13PM (#28144780)

Given the same sensor area, a dramatic increase in pixels will reduce low-light sensitivity. The space between pixels does not collect light, so the more spaces between, the less light collected overall.

Think of a tic-tac-toe grid - it's mostly white space with a few black lines. Expand that out to a 1000x1000 grid in the same space, and there is a lot less white space and a lot more black lines.

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Re:Sony's new curved image sensors could shake up the whole ... by passivate on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:27PM (#28144955)

We have been using gapless microlenses on imaging sensors for quite a while now. Also, when the pixels shrink, tech advancements in reducing downstream read-noise also mean that very little ISO performance is sacrificed (if any). Certainly, there is a lot more nuance and tech to discuss, but those are the broad strokes.

https://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/PDR.htm#Canon%20EOS%2...

https://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/RN_e.htm#Canon%20EOS%...

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