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Originally Posted by Shiraz
but won't the 16803 be getting about 6x as many photons/pixel/s as the 1600, so it will still saturate at lower flux?
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No, its gets the same, just how that is divided up by the number of pixels. It gets a broader area but that's not per pixel but per area of sensor. What counts is what Suavi mentioned, light per pixel which would be more for a larger pixel and larger for a CCD as it does not have 40% of the sensor surface taken up with surrounding CMOS circuitry per pixel. So standard CMOS sensors unless they are BSI (backside illuminated) lose 40% of surface area to surrounding per pixel circuitry.
Later Sony BSI sensors like in the Sony A7r2 are designed to get that 40% back by flipping the sensor over and leaving the circuitry on the other side of the sensor. It started with the Sony RX100 ii or iii.
Greg.
Greg.