Has anyone seen them in action/knows current prices? Any real advantage over CCD at normal lighting levels (DIC)?
Thanks, René
Hi René,
there is a article in german about the sensor : http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/op/09-03/OP0903_S37-S39.pdf
You may write to Mr.Holst for a english version.
E-Mail: gerhard.holst@pco.de
If you should make use of this technology, please lets have some results. It seems interesting.
Greetings Lothar
Thanks Lothar. Another pdf on the comparison with CCD can be founf at Andor: http://www.andor.com/pdfs/learning/technical/neo/New%20sCMOS%20vs.%20Current%20Microscopy%20Cameras.pdf
In the meantime I have had contact with the UK rep from QImaging. Basically he said sCMOS is defenitely better for low lighting levels over (normal) CCDs but at normal lighting levels (ie our uses) there's no practical gain. The price for sCMOS is absurdly high (20K or more). I guess we'll have to wait a couple of years.
Anyway, I asked him his thoughts about dSLR sensors, and he finds them remarkably good. He reckons those sensors have a dynamic range of 1:10.000 or so, whereas the Sony CCD's would reach 1:16-20.000 (the Kodak range would be even better). Can somebody confirm this? What would the equivalent number for the much advocated ImagingSource 5Mp CMOS be?
Best wishes, René
Hi Rene,
Have you seen this paper?
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v8/n12/full/nmeth.1777.html
Monya Baker (2011) Faster frames, clearer pictures. Nature Methods 8: 1005–1009 doi:10.1038/nmeth.1777
It has a full table of performance data and prices for sCMOS'.
Regards,
Jon