Photosites

If you cram twice as many photosites onto a sensor, that halves (quarters? my geometry is a bit weak) the size of each photosite. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sometimes the pixel-sensors are called “photosites” to distinguish them from “sensors”, in the sense of the the entire sensor chip that sits behind the lens and collects the light to produce the image. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These are not social networking sites per se - they are city guide sites, or video sites, or travel sites, or book sites, or photosites. ❋ Ben Barren (2007)

David, I was looking at the photosites I enjoy most and I found out that there were new posts on dg28.com. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Since the human eye is twice sensitive to the green color, the number of photosites having green color is twice the number of photosites having red or blue color. ❋ Videosaver (2010)

The image sensor is an electronic device, a semiconductor, made up of photosites that measures the light intensity. ❋ Videosaver (2010)

Millions of photosites are covered by this Bayer pattern. ❋ Videosaver (2010)

The X3 sensor has photosites buried within the silicone at varying depth that allow the camera to capture red, green and blue at each pixel location. ❋ Doug Harman (2010)

So we'd be happy to pat any manufacturer on the back who delivers improvements in overall image quality without the obvious step in megapixel count (great high ISO performance will be a natural consequence of larger photosites and / or larger sensors). ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Hot pixels" are defective photosites on the camera's sensor that don't properly register the light that hits them (for more information on this topic, see our article on Hot Pixels). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rather than making use of the 'Exmor' CMOS sensor from the A700, the A350 is instead built around a CCD chip crammed with a staggering 14.2 million photosites. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The other major difference is that because of the smaller photosites, the D3X's usable ISO range is now ISO100-1600, down from the ISO200-6400 of the D3. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There's simply no worse combination than tiny photosites and high gain. ❋ Unknown (2009)