Comments on: Sony Exmor R sensor now in digital cameras

By: ki6mf

ki6mf — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:37:16 +0000

The chip vendors announced 9 MB availability for the Japanese camera market in spring 2008. (EE Times (03/04/2008 ) It will be interesting to see how big they can make the sensors. Sony is buying the fab and/or design from either Kodak, Micron, Taiwan Semiconductor who all have been tweaking this technology since the scientific/milspec community started researching this in 1999. It appears to be a combination on engineering improvements rather than a major breakthrough in technology.

By: guate6

guate6 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:43:12 +0000

The first video was bad, and the second…well, I wish I understood Japanese :\

By: rwbenjey

rwbenjey — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:40:21 +0000

The first video has to be one of the worst videos I have ever seen….

By: donde?

donde? — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:57:51 +0000

Well if you remember the leaked Nikon roadmap, there it said for e.g. the D4:
Nikon D4 – new features:
effective pixels: 15.7 millions, FX sensor completely new design with maximized by increasing the sensitivity of more than 1 EV

Since EV is essentially logarithmic to base2, twice the sensitivity (as advertised by Sony) means 1EV higher sensitivity.

OTOH, the roadmap was obviously fake with regards to lenses (there wasn’t a 17-65 f/3.2-4 VR in August). But maybe this makes it a little more likely that Nikon is considering this for D4 and D400.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:28:06 +0000

hmm will nikon adopt this technology?that would be awesome