Originally Posted By: tman
Originally Posted By: tfabris
Many CCDs don't use rectangular elements in their arrays.

Many? The only one I know of for the consumer digital world is the Fuji SuperCCDs which have variations on the octagonal pixel. Everybody else in the consumer digital world uses rectangular pixels.


How would you really know? The CCD digital signal processing circuit is going to translate the odd-shaped pixels to rectangular ones so you aren't going to know just by looking at the output.