- Live MOS
The Live MOS sensor is a brand name of
Image sensor used by Leica,Panasonic and Olympus in theirFour Thirds System DSLR manufactured since 2006. (Olympus E-330 ,Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1 andLeica Digilux 3 ).It is possibly researched and developed by Panasonic. It claimed that it can achieve the same quality as CCD while keeping energy consumption down to CMOS levels.
Due to low energy consumption, it became possible to add the Live View function to all the Four Thirds Cameras since 2006 (except the
Olympus E-400 ).Also, In order to reduce the noise problem found in the first generation of Four Thirds DSLR cameras, (
Olympus E-1 , E-300, E-400 and E-500) which used FFT CCD sensors [Specifications of Olympus E-400 did not mentioned the type of CCD is FFT or not.] (due to smaller sensor size compared to theAPS-C size) [SeeFour_Thirds_System#Disadvantages ] , the Live MOS chip includes completely new noise-reduction technology.Footnotes
External links
* [http://panasonic.co.jp/pavc/global/lumix/l1/sensor_venusengine01.html Tech into. at Panasonic]
* [http://www.dcviews.com/press/Olympus-Panasonic-MOS.htm News at DCViews]
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