Taking cues from its Alpha A99, which was just announced today, Sony brought that camera's 24.3-megapixel full-frame sensor to a camcorder form factor, delivering shallow depth-of-field and much improved low-light sensitivity in a more practical package.
One aspect of this paper is an in-depth analysis justifying and calculating the GIA factor, which was originally described in Peltier 2002, which is also cited by the CU sea level group.