Oh-- well, yes and no. The data throughput of this sensor at full
speed would be faster than any other dSLR in existence, including
Canon's new-as-of-yesterday 1DsmkIII. In order to use this sensor,
the camera manufacturer will have to develop an image processing
pipeline that can handle that kind of data throughput. Since no one
else has done this in a dSLR yet, I'd say its probably at least
reasonable challenging. The new Canon's are at 48 MB/s, so this
sensor would be at 60 MB/s. This is beyond the read/write speeds of
UDMA, which is the fastest memory card speed out there. That said,
portable memory read/write speeds still seem to be in a state of
exponential improvement, so by next year, or even later this year, I
would expect Sony to have been able to accomplish this. But other
camera companies (Nikon, Pentax, Olympus, etc.) may not have the
resources to develop this in the same timeframe as Sony. Just add
6-18 months and others will have it though.
Frank
