OT: 1/4", 1/3", 1/2", 2/3" where's it at?

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 10/29/2004, 1:17 PM
I have always been inclined to use larger chip cameras. I never really enjoyed shooting anything with less than a 1/3" chip in it. Most of my shooting, however, is in low lighting conditions and I rarely get to shoot outdoors.

What's the prevailing opinion on best chip? is it strictly bigger is better, is it somewhere, or is it totally the opposite and smaller is better?

Curious to here your responses.

I personally shoot with an agdvx100 (a 1/3" chiper) and have thought about the XL2 but I think that it's 1/4" (a major turn off for me) and question it's quality.

Comments

GaryKleiner wrote on 10/29/2004, 1:31 PM
Your statement is contradictory. "Aversion" means that you DON'T like something. Also, how does the chip size affect your enjoyment of shooting? (Viewing the results maybe.)

In the past, larger CCDs almost always meant a better image. I think as technology has progressed, chip size per se has become less important, but is certainly still a consideration. However, you don't see chip size as a big selling point in advertising anymore.

Bottom line is that glass and camera electronics are just as important as chip size, perhaps more now than before.

Gary
apit34356 wrote on 10/29/2004, 1:40 PM
There is no simple answer because of the all different manufacturing processes used by the ic makers. But with reduce ic surface, a common problem is lens quality, defects have more impact on higher density chips. high density ics are required in HD cameras because they have space problems, but most manufacturers insure high quality lens are used or available for the camera model. It's the density of pixels per chip, its easliy to have 1/3=1/4 pixel count. But the manufacturing process may make one superior to other to things like noise, emc, light sensitive.....
farss wrote on 10/29/2004, 2:07 PM
In general it's the size of the CCD elements themselves that matter. The bigger they are the more charge they can hold so less smear and noise. That's why pro cameras only have around 500K pixel CCDs. Also and I don't truly understand why but as the size of the image created by the lens gets smaller you seem to have less control over DOF.
On top of that add the quality of the glass, signal prcessing and recording system.
Bob.