The D70 was Nikon's brief experiment with the merging of mechanical
and electronic shutter. 1/500 synch speed. It was not carried on to
its successor the D80. It is said that Nikon did not like the
electronic shutter artifacts in certain images. Blooming is usually
the problem.
Winsor
Long Beach, CA
USA
On Aug 22, 2007, at 6:10 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> No, the high speed is not due to small mechanicals but rather the
> "electronic" shutter. But that requires an interline transfer sensor
> (ala point & shoots) rather than a full frame sensor and DSLR's do not
> now use interline sensors. As I understand it, interline sensors have
> less total surface area devoted to actually catching photons
> because of
> then need to place componentry on the front surface. But something
> analogous has to be going on with live view so maybe DSLR's will
> eventually move to an interline form of sensor.
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