12-15-2011, 01:52 AM
Will it be like measuring only the light that hits it, not "gathering" it like now?
Compare the sensors now to a bucket that catches the water and can only catch so much before it's full, the bigger the bucket, the more it catches (the bigger dynamic range). And this new thing just is a mechanism that just measures the amount of weather passing through, so it can "catch" any amount, meaning any amount of dynamic range, more dynamic range the longer you expose.
If so, I've been wondering why sensors don't work like that <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> but I know nothing about electronics though, so even if it's a no-brainer for someone working with sensor technology why they're not working like that, i wouldn't know.
Compare the sensors now to a bucket that catches the water and can only catch so much before it's full, the bigger the bucket, the more it catches (the bigger dynamic range). And this new thing just is a mechanism that just measures the amount of weather passing through, so it can "catch" any amount, meaning any amount of dynamic range, more dynamic range the longer you expose.
If so, I've been wondering why sensors don't work like that <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> but I know nothing about electronics though, so even if it's a no-brainer for someone working with sensor technology why they're not working like that, i wouldn't know.