ok, fourthirds-user.com/.../the_biggest_four_thirds_sensor_yet.php is something along the lines i was thinking. simply extend the idea to 1:1 and portrait. but still, you'll have to make a lot of pixels outside the circle you're not going to use --> too expensive...


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Also,
Quote Originally Posted by Neuroanatomist
but unlike dough, you can't just ball up the rest of the silicon wafer and roll it out again...

Yeah, you kind of can. but they just throw the rest of the wafer back into the crystal-growing vat, no sense in wasting all that purified silicon...