Specifications, Native Capabilities and Image Quality

Makes sense. When I was a youngster (ages ago) my dad had an old Speed Graphic camera from his days working as a portrait photographer in Chicago. (My God how I wish he had held on to that!) Nothing the least bit electronic about that but I remember how big it was and how the image shone through the lens hit the entire surface of the film. I guess that would be the analog comparison to a really, really big full frame sensor.

Do image sensors for action cameras conform to an industry standard size? For example, Mtz mentioned Panasonic, Sony and Omnivision sensors above. Do all of those have the same physical dimensions?

I also found this information on a Canon website that helped me understand things a bit better. http://www.canon.com/technology/s_labo/light/003/05.html

Thanks kamkar1. :)
 
BRILLIANT JOKIIN, ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!:D:D:D For me both videos are at exactly the right ratio of layman/specialist that I need. The first video challenged me to remember back decades ago to my college chemistry and physics - not my strong suits at the time despite ultimately earning a degree in engineering (civil)!

I really must thank you for being so helpful once again. I'll be looking into more videos from both authors.

Cheers :)
 
I found this video about light, CCD and CMOS sensors and more to be highly informative - technology described in layman's terms. I'll be looking at some of the other videos in this series.


EDIT 2016/01/18: If you go to 7:02 in this video there's a good explanation of what jokiin was explaining to me above about the advantage of a larger pixel size. :)
 
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Part 2 of "Camera and Image Sensor Technology Fundamentals". This is another excellent video. Although the speaker and his organization deal with industrial and machine applications, basically the entire video is useful for understanding consumer action cam components and operation.
 
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