Re: To David Soderman: A Little Test

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[Paul D. DeRocco:]
> >I don't know how the 2000 or 4000 work, but the 8000 does indeed have three
> >CCDs. Superfine mode only uses one of them, and so takes three times as
> >long. Nikon touts this as a way of reducing banding, which suggests to me
> >that they're using three RGB CCDs merely for speed, rather than one R, one G
> >and one B. Miscalibration in the latter case would merely result in a slight
> >but constant color shift, not banding.

[Kennedy McEwen:]
> Miscalibration would result in banding in either case.


Miscalibration could cause irregular streaking in a direction 
perpendicular to the sensor array.

It could not cause periodic banding in a direction parallel to 
the sensor array -- not by any mechanism that I can fathom.

If I'm wrong, please explain.


rafe b.

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