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Canon to use CMOS sensors for compact camera
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TSkevin613
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 Jul 16 2007, 12:34 AM, updated 19y ago
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QUOTE Thanks to Jeff for the heads up on this, according to an article posted yesterday by Reuters, Canon is to invest 55 billion Yen ($451 million) in a new CMOS production factory at its existing site in the Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo. The interesting snippet in this news article comes from the following statement: "The CMOS chips will be used in both single lens reflex (SLR) models as well as in some compact models. Canon's compact cameras have to date used a different type of image sensor called a charge-coupled device (CCD)." This is interesting from an image quality point of view but will also be big news for Canon's existing sensor suppliers such as Sony. http://www.dpreview.com/news/0707/070715canoncmoscompact.aspgood news for future canon buyers, and bad news for sony (as a supplier of CCD sensors)  |
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clemong_888
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Jul 16 2007, 07:08 AM
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QUOTE(kevin613 @ Jul 16 2007, 12:34 AM) http://www.dpreview.com/news/0707/070715canoncmoscompact.aspgood news for future canon buyers, and bad news for sony (as a supplier of CCD sensors) its very interesting news indeed.cant wait for canon to release a cam using it. g8 with cmos???  |
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R a D ! c 4 L
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Jul 16 2007, 08:03 AM
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Linc | Nox
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QUOTE(clemong_888 @ Jul 16 2007, 07:08 AM) its very interesting news indeed.cant wait for canon to release a cam using it. g8 with cmos??? if the G8 has a cmos and raw mode. Hell yeah! |
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julchin_09
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Jul 16 2007, 12:17 PM
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The G8 would be one helluva bridge cam / 2nd body.....
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TSkevin613
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Jul 16 2007, 01:19 PM
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QUOTE(julchin_09 @ Jul 16 2007, 12:17 PM) The G8 would be one helluva bridge cam / 2nd body..... i'm missing the powershot pro1.. L lens on compact body, pair it with a good CMOS sensor, u can forget bout the rest.. oh canon, please make a powershot pro2.. hahaha.. This post has been edited by kevin613: Jul 16 2007, 01:21 PM |
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chucky
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Jul 17 2007, 06:52 PM
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Maybe Canon's getting sick of replacing faulty sensors made by other companies.
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TSkevin613
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Jul 17 2007, 06:57 PM
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anyway, it's not gonna be anytime soon, the factory will only start operation in july 2008, so the earliest we'll see canon compact with their own cmos sensor should be in 2009.
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R a D ! c 4 L
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Jul 17 2007, 07:50 PM
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QUOTE(kevin613 @ Jul 17 2007, 06:57 PM) anyway, it's not gonna be anytime soon, the factory will only start operation in july 2008, so the earliest we'll see canon compact with their own cmos sensor should be in 2009. still its great new  by then sony's going to face a major downfall in their business they better buckle up now.
Added on July 17, 2007, 8:15 pmand so they did Sony CMOS investmentThis post has been edited by R a D ! c 4 L: Jul 17 2007, 08:15 PM |
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scorgio
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Jul 17 2007, 10:02 PM
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QUOTE(chucky @ Jul 17 2007, 06:52 PM) Maybe Canon's getting sick of replacing faulty sensors made by other companies. The Canon marketing ppl always brag about the advantage of CMOS & how proud they are for producing their own sensor when promoting Canon's range of dSLR. But whenever ppl ask, "then why Canon don't use CMOS in compact cameras?", they don't know how to answer.  |
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AlamakLor
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Jul 18 2007, 09:56 PM
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Look at all my stars!!
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TSkevin613
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Jul 19 2007, 12:31 AM
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QUOTE(AlamakLor @ Jul 18 2007, 09:56 PM) competition between manufacturers means consumer will benefit..  so we'll probably see compacts moving away from CCD to CMOS in the not-so-soon future.. |
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SUSdgrebel
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Jul 19 2007, 06:17 PM
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why do they still make compact cameras? why not make everyone a must to only buy DSLRs?  and considerably cheaper too.. just make every DSLR equivalent to the canon eos20da. |
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TSkevin613
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Jul 19 2007, 07:15 PM
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QUOTE(dgrebel @ Jul 19 2007, 06:17 PM) why do they still make compact cameras? why not make everyone a must to only buy DSLRs? and considerably cheaper too.. just make every DSLR equivalent to the canon eos20da. DSLR is not exactly portable, and pocketable lah.. |
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ganz
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Jul 19 2007, 09:39 PM
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and not so cute... This post has been edited by ganz: Jul 19 2007, 09:43 PM |
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TSkevin613
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Jul 20 2007, 12:25 AM
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QUOTE(ganz @ Jul 19 2007, 09:39 PM) and can't view from LCD display while taking picture not true.. olympus has a few models that can do live preview already, so is the latest canon 1dm3. |
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new in IT
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Jul 20 2007, 07:08 PM
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What's the difference between cmos and ccd?
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.....wah..... compact cam oso wanna use cmos.... 
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