It looks like Sony is investing heavily in its sensor production facility in Japan. According to the press release, Sony Corporation announced that it would invest approximately 60 billion JPY in Sony Semiconductor Kyushu Corporation’s Kumamoto Technology Centre (Kumamoto TEC) Fab 2 facility, to extend clean room facilities by 5,000m² and reinforce image sensor fabrication [...]
Eastman Kodak Company continues its leadership position in image sensor technology with the release of the KODAK KAI-16000 Image Sensor, offering the highest resolution interline transfer CCD image sensor.
The only problem for DSLR manufacturers is that the sensor is only available for commercial and industrial markets. It builds on Kodaks robust CCD technology, which [...]
According to an interview with the Assistant Manager, Product Planning and R&D Department for Nikon, Charles- André Wamberque, full frame sensor may become a reality when the cost decreases.
Here’s what he says:
“We never said we abandoned the full frame. But then again, we never said when we will introduce a camera with a full frame [...]
DALSA Semiconductor has announced today that it has successfully fabricated and delivered the world’s highest resolution image sensor chip to its customer, Semiconductor Technology Associates (“STAâ€) of San Juan Capistrano, California.
The sensor is a CCD type and has over 111 megapixels measuring 10,560 pixels x 10,560 pixels at 9µm. It is over 4 inches [...]
Here is an interesting article by www.photoreporter.com that summarizes the differnces in digital camera formats between the different manufacturers. The formats includes Full Frame 24 x 36mm, Four Thirds 17.3 x 13mm and the common APS-C 22 x15mm.
Here’s what they say about each format.
Full-Frame Format
The full-frame digital format was pioneered by Canon in the EOS-1D [...]
Here is an interesting article by Tomohiro Otsuki in the April 2006 Issue of Nikkei Electronics Asia on a new CMOS sensor by Fujifilm.
“The Fuji Photo Film Co Ltd of Japan has made a breakthrough with the development of a new complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor by using an organic photoelectric conversion film, and successfully [...]
Will the Foveon 10 megapixel X3 Pro CMOS sensor ever take off? On paper the sensor does sound very impressive with the following information from its specification sheet.
“The Foveon X3® Pro 10M is a 1.7 FLM (focal length multiplier)* high-resolution CMOS direct image sensor that incorporates breakthrough Foveon X3 technology. Newly enhanced, the latest version [...]
If you’re new to Digital SLR cameras, then cleaning your digital camera sensor is a scary thought. My first experience is to use the professionals, however considering the frequency, the regularity of dust contaminating the sensor and the cost; it does make sense to do it yourself. Once you’ll learn how to do it, it [...]
Korean sensor manufacturer, Planet82 inc has announced a new high sensitivity image sensor. The Single Carrier Modulation Photo Detector (SMPD) uses nanotechnology which allows cameras to take high resolution photos or video in near darkness or extremely low light.
Planet82 claims the new sensor is 1000 times more sensitive to light than the traditional photo sensors. [...]
International high performance semiconductor and electronics company, DALSA Corporation has announced that its next generation of CCD image sensors with a massive 33 mega-pixel and 28 mega-pixel has been designed into new digital camera backs including the Leaf Aptus 75.
The new Leaf Aptus 75 medium and large format digital camera back, which was recently launched [...]