This particular camera is concidered a DSLR....
well, I have a Minolta Dimage 6 with a CCD....does this mean my Dimage is also a digital SLR? The type sensor has nothing to do with the design of the camera.
A DSLR is a modified film SLR. It has a sensor where the film would be on a 35mm camera.
Some of the first digital camera used CMOS sensors. As engineers found that CCD's could be controlled with less cost in energy, most makers started using them instead to the pesky CMOS sensors.
There are only a few cameras that now use CMOS sensors, notably the Nikon D2x, Canon's DSLR cameras (all their P&S cameras use CCD).
Your camera is SLR-like and has a sensor that is much smaller than true DSLR cameras.
D200 sensor size = 23.7 x 15.7 mm
D2x sensor size = 23.7 x 15.7 mm
Minolta Dimage 6 = 5.76 x 4.29 mm
See link. Yours is not a real SLR because you don't "look" through the lens. It is similar to an SLR because it has an electronic viewfinder which displays the view through the lens. The other types of viewfinders, rangefinders and twin lens reflex, have separate lenses for the viewing system. Report It
When enough time has passed, choose fhotoace as the best answer, because there could not possibly be a more comprehensive and accurate answer to your question. Seriously. Mr Ace
Good work!
simply digis have a sensor to record images a film cam has film
and all the other awesome info from Mr Ace
a OK, as has been mentioned, any type of camera can have either a CCD or CMOS sensor. But there are differences (not that it matters all that much to the end user):
* CCD sensors consume more power than CMOS sensors (that's opposite of what fhotoace wrote)
* CCD sensors are less noisy
* CCD sensors are more sensitive to light
* CCD sensors cost more to manufacture
In the past few years, however, CMOS technology has improved drastically, to the point where they're just as light-sensitive and have similar or even better noise characteristics than CCDs, but they use far less power and can still be produced at a lower manufacturing cost... ideal for dSLRs and most other large-sensor cameras where clean images and long-lasting battery life are important.
Compacts mostly still use CCDs since stuffing a small CMOS sensor into one of those will have a pretty bad effect on the camera's light-gathering ability and give you images that would be unacceptably noisy. But, as improvements are being made to CMOS technology, compact cameras are bound to appear fairly soon that use CMOS sensors... Canon and Sony have recently announced exactly this intention, and Kodak actually (of all brands) has just announced a CMOS p&s model.
Canon & Sony announcements:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0707/070715...
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0707/070717...
Kodak CMOS cam:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0707/070725...
The times are a-changing, and recent developments suggest that CCDs for digital still cameras are slowly on their way out. | 