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Old 28-05-2016, 05:25 PM
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Lee,

Overscan is an area of a CCD not used in the image but records some pixel information. I think its used for internal settings for the CCD. When you see a sensor that has say 15mp of pixels and 14.8 effective the difference is in the overscan area. Its blacked out and the pixels don't receive light.

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