The cameras being made now, and the market that shrank around them.
04Section
Sensor geometry, Bayer and Foveon arrays, phase-detect AF, IBIS, rolling shutter, global shutter, RAW formats — the engineering behind the specification sheet.
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Sensor numbers are geometry. The specification sheet reports the results of physical constraints without naming them.
Most camera sensors see the world through a compromise. The choice of which compromise to accept is baked into the silicon before the shutter is ever fired.
Rolling shutter is not a glitch — it is a consequence of how sensors read out. Sony's a9 III is the first full-frame camera to eliminate it at the source.
The format war nobody voted for: five proprietary containers, one open standard, and a long argument about who owns your archive.
One measurement is the complete explanation for an entire product category.