The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: CCD

Communication Ancient & Modern. Even when I owned a better camera than the Nikon D50 I continued to use the lesser of the two. It was light in weight and I didn't fret over what might happen to it - they were easily replaced at little cost on the secondhand market. Nothing ever did happen to it, though. It was quite a sturdy instrument. The pictures it made had good colour characteristics. People ascribe this to its CCD sensor. That type of sensor had been superseded by CMOS technology which initially produced a flatter, slightly clinical, sort of picture. I rather liked what came out of the D50 and years later bought a very inexpensive D40 which was specified with the same CCD sensor. Manufacturers preferred CMOS largely because it was cheaper to produce and it seemed to take some years before CMOS technology had a bit of photographic soul about it. Some might argue that it's still inferior. The photo was taken with a Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AF lens, which behaved like a 35mm focal length on the crop sensor of the D50.