What is the difference B2in CCD and CMOS camera sensor and which one of the two is better?

Question

I'm interested in knowing if a CCD sensor is better than a CMOS, I have read that CMOS downloads image data faster at the cost of quality. is that true? is a CCD that much slower to make it inferior to a CCD?

i meant inferior to a CMOS.

Answer 1

For awhile CMOS was considered a lower quality option than CCD, but not any more. Nowadays, they are equivalent.

However, since most manufacturers went with CCD in the early years of digital cameras, there are more cameras on the market which use that type of sensor. CMOS has some advantages like using less power (so batteries will last longer) and being less expensive to manufacture, so we'll probably see more CMOS cameras in the future.

Here's the best article I've found which explains the differences and covers some of the history.

Answer 2

Several resources:

http://www.dalsa.com/markets/ccd_vs_cmos.asp

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question362.htm

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/D30/D30A4.HTM