Nikon Rumors Forum » User Favorites: ronin1 http://nikonrumors.com/forum/profile.php?id=1746 where there’s smoke there’s forum fire en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 08:29:35 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://nikonrumors.com/forum/search.php heartyfisher on "Sony Honeycomb Sensor Patent" http://nikonrumors.com/forum/topic.php?id=2396#post-40478 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:17:45 +0000 heartyfisher 40478@http://nikonrumors.com/forum/

I cant see that its going to be a huge increase in performance. Although its pretty obvious to me that there will be an improvement due to the efficiency gained from not having corners(ie the corners of a square sensor are likely to be not used very much due to the micro lens focusing the light towards the centre of the sensor) still an improvement of say 10-15% in MP would be nice.

shivaswrath on "Sony Honeycomb Sensor Patent" http://nikonrumors.com/forum/topic.php?id=2396#post-40472 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:14:16 +0000 shivaswrath 40472@http://nikonrumors.com/forum/

wouldn't that increase noise as you increase signal density?

Ronin.1 on "Sony Honeycomb Sensor Patent" http://nikonrumors.com/forum/topic.php?id=2396#post-40435 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:49:55 +0000 Ronin.1 40435@http://nikonrumors.com/forum/

Take a look at this:
http://photorumors.com/2010/08/03/sony-patents-honeycomb-image-sensor/comment-page-1/#comment-8781

It looks as though it would be possible to place more photodiodes onto a sensor of a given size even while maintaining the effective size (diameter) of the photodiode.

How much could a D3S sensor's resolution be increased in this way without impairing performance?