There's a whole new subject, the stage at which analogue becomes
digital. If you can describe light as analogue, I should have thought
that the collection process, being electronic and wholly concerned
with on/off switches, was digital.
Chris
On 18 Jun 2009, at 23:15, Moose wrote:
> The sensor itself is analog. The image data becomes digital through an
> A/D conversion fairly early in the chain. Even if the conversion
> happens
> on chip, the sensor sites themselves are analog.
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