Mirrorless Interchangeable-Lens Camera (MILC) / Digital Single-Lens Mirrorless (DSLM)
Parts
Image Sensor
CMOS | CCD/EMCCD | Foveon | Film
CMOS generally has rolling electronic shutter and keeps ADC on board
CCD has a global shutter, draws more current and keeps ADC as a seperate unit
Illumination
BSI CMOS | FSI CMOS | Stacked CMOS
FSI: Sony Legacy | EXMOR (1-4th gen); not as bright as BSI
BSI: Sony EXMOR-R (5th gen EXMOR) | EXMOR-R STARVIS | EXMOR-RS | Samsung ISOCELL (cellphone sensors; problems they fix like light-leaks don’t occur for larger sensors)
NOTE: EXMOR-R STARVIS series has low-light sensitivity and NIR capabilities, and RS extends it
BSI needs a mechanical shutter to freeze fast moving objects in place
Stacked Sensors: Sony Pregius (Stacked BSI and GS CMOS) | Pregius S (Places DRAM chip on the same silicon as the sensor, and increases readout speeds, thereby not needing a mechanical shutter)
Shutter Type
Global Shutter (GS): Sony Pregius | Pregius S
Pregius borrows ideas from CCD Architecture
Color Filter Array
Bayer Filter
Tetracell, Quad-Bayer
Fujifilm X-Trans
Huawei RYYB
Quantum efficiency diagrams show how sensitively different sensors react to light of different wavelengths
Lens Mount
Lens
Image Signal Processor (ISP)
Light Meter
Parameters
Image Sensor
Image Sensor Size
Full Frame | APS-C | Four Thirds | 1/1.7” | 1/2.3” | 1/3.2”
Mount FFD
Lens Aperture, focal length and FOV
Shutter Type
Global | Rolling | Pseudo-Global (All Rows mode)
Pseudo-global mode captures light only at the interval where all rows are in the same exposure from the exposure parallelogram