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Originally Posted by Shiraz
The extra hardware around a CMOS pixel is not a problem - microlenses are used to focus the light from the full pixel size down to the physical pixel, so there is no light lost by collision with non-sensitive hardware. Modern CMOS is more than competitive with CCD technology in all respects.
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Normal CMOS is catching up to CCD but in it's current form I don't think will surpass it (CCD have evolved too). However sCMOS is a different story, for example take a look at
http://www.andor.com/scientific-came...-scmos-cameras
Andor is the company that bought up Apogee, which was then bought by an even bigger fish, Oxford Instruments...
When you have to email them to find out the price of the camera, you have to be pretty serious about your purchase.
EB