The Future, Perhaps

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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;)

[peterv]

interesting, thanks.

 

I guess I'll postpone my order for the new Nocti, the 24 Lux and the 21 Lux

[buckhorn_cortez]

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....

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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;)

[manolo]

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.