photosite

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Individual light sensitive element in a digital image sensor
Another name given to the single, light-sensitive area on a CCD that records unique image detail
A small area on the surface of an image sensor that captures the brightness for a single pixel in the image There is one photosite for every pixel in the image
Photosites are light-sensitive photoreceptor cells in your camera's sensor The camera can have a 1-, 2-, or 3-megapixel sensor This means it has millions (the mega in megapixel) of light-sensitive photoreceptor cells The photosites take the incoming light from the camera's lens and convert it into a digital file The more photosites you have on a sensor, the better your image resolution will be; and the better the image resolution you have, the larger your final print can be
Photosites are the individual light-sensitive squares (or rectangles) of a CCD chip A CCD chip is comprised of thousands or millions of photosites In a CCD image, usually each photosites becomes an individual pixel in the final image displayed on screen, but sometimes the photosites are binned and 4 or 9 individual photosites work effectively as one larger photosite to create a single pixel Photosites are almost always called pixels, except when a distinction needs to be made between photosites and image pixels
a single photosensitive element in a CCD which translates to one pixel in the resultant image Also known as a CCD element