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Canon, when can we expect new sensors?

Started Mar 6, 2012 | Discussions thread
highpriest Contributing Member • Posts: 989
Re: Canon, when can we expect new sensors?

Bodhi Dharma Zen wrote:

So, my question is, is there a way to know when are their next generation of sensors coming to the market? I'm invested with Canon (4 lenses) and I don't want to lose money, changing all my gear to other brand, only to realize (maybe, what, in September?) that Canon has launched new cameras with new sensors that are way better than current Sony offers....

Looks like they already have some new sensor technologies in the 5D III.

From: http://www.dpreview.com/previews/canoneos5dmarkiii/4

The pixel count may be similar to that of the 5D Mark II, but the Mark III's sensor is entirely new. The pixel architecture is changed, with a promised increase in photoelectric conversion rate (light is more efficiently converted to readable charge).

Canon has also applied its gapless microlens array, meaning more of the light hitting the sensor gets directed down into the photodiodes. Finally there's a newly-developed on-chip noise reduction system to improve the quality of the information coming off the chip.

Canon isn't making specific claims for how much of an improvement these changes make to the raw output but, once subjected to the DIGIC 5+'s processing, it will claim a 2-stop improvement in the JPEG images.

That "on-chip noise reduction" thing is, I believe, something the Sony sensors use very effectively to improve sensor output.

Cheers

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