stevelap Posted October 14, 2008 Share #1 Posted October 14, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) 1854, the blog of the British Journal of Photography Black Silicon eh, I wonder if and when? Hopefully not before the S2 hits the streets;) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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peterv Posted October 14, 2008 Share #2 Posted October 14, 2008 interesting, thanks. I guess I'll postpone my order for the new Nocti, the 24 Lux and the 21 Lux Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckhorn_cortez Posted October 14, 2008 Share #3 Posted October 14, 2008 The laser is used in conjunction with doping gas. It incorporates one million more times doping agent than the normal silicon doping treatment. When a bias current is applied to the silicon, a single photon will liberate dozens of electrons - making the silicon 500 times more light sensitive. HOWEVER, (you knew this was coming....) - and this could be a good thing or a bad thing - the silicon is now sensitive to IR wavelengths. Where most of the IR just used to whistle right throught the silicon - now it produces electrons. If you want to image in the IR range, well, then that's just dandy. But, seeing how people wailed and gnashed their teeth, writhing on the ground in a fit of angst over the M8's IR sensitivity - my... I guess suicide would be the next step for a sensor made with a material that was truly IR sensitive.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevelap Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share #4 Posted October 15, 2008 The laser is used in conjunction with doping gas. It incorporates one million more times doping agent than the normal silicon doping treatment. When a bias current is applied to the silicon, a single photon will liberate dozens of electrons - making the silicon 500 times more light sensitive. HOWEVER, (you knew this was coming....) - and this could be a good thing or a bad thing - the silicon is now sensitive to IR wavelengths. Where most of the IR just used to whistle right throught the silicon - now it produces electrons. If you want to image in the IR range, well, then that's just dandy. But, seeing how people wailed and gnashed their teeth, writhing on the ground in a fit of angst over the M8's IR sensitivity - my... I guess suicide would be the next step for a sensor made with a material that was truly IR sensitive.... Best not mention this in the M8 forum just yet then;) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manolo Posted October 15, 2008 Share #5 Posted October 15, 2008 for me the ideal would be to have this high sensitivity to infrared AND be able to separate it in a RAW file so that we could use it or not according to the final output that we wanted. That would REALLY be a RAW file. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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