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Heikki Kultala said:
It's CMOS.

So it has more "auxiliary stuff" on each pixel, meaning worse fill
factor.
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If you compare it with a typical interline-transfer CCD, they're not that much different in "auxiliary stuff". Microlenses increase the optical fill-factor to similar levels.
Heikki Kultala said:
I think it's 6 Mpx because 10-12 Mpx 1/1.8" CMOS would have been much
noisier than 10-12 Mpx 1/1.8" CCD, and 6 Mpx was a good compromise.
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Sony has a commercially available CMOS 5mp 1/2.8" sensor which does 5MP 15fps, or 30, 60, 120fps at 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 resolution respectively.
Heikki Kultala said:
btw. Kodak's CMOS sensor based P&S camera has max sensitivity of 200,
propably because the sensor is so noisy.
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The base ISO of the IMX017CQE is about ISO100, this was worked out by BJL and myself sometime back (if we didn't get our sums wrong :-).

Cheers,
Daniel.
 
I think is cool manufacturers are coming with interesting cameras such this.

But I feel that the vast majority here all are claiming for is a clean High Quality sensor.
Good ISO 800, 5MP, Good Dynamic Range and 5fps with buffered RAW.

I don't really need 600fps !!
These manufacturers are getting the priorities wrong.

And talking about niche, where is the B&W camera with color wheel. ?
Where is the Stereo (3D) Camera. ?

Still waiting......................................

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This is interesting, as I was just talking to a newspaper photographer the other day, and he was telling me many newspaper organizations are now switching from the usual digital cameras to hi-def videos and then extracting frames for publication in the papers, magazines etc. Convergence is clearly taking place, for at least some segments in the industry!
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Jeffrey H. Ferguson
 
Might it have problems with shutter life by doing so many exposures? Or does a digicam like this not suffer from that kind of problem? I do know DSLR's and digicams use a different kind of shutter.

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Cheers,
Dave.
 
Do they really think 60fps is fast enough to capture a still shot of a 2 year old child all hopped up on sugar from drinking too much apple juice? I think I need about 100fps for my daughter. :-)

...and in other news. Sandisk to launch new line of 1TB Wicked Extreme IX SDC (Super Duper Capcity) SD cards :-)
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Canon A630
Canon SD600
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Sony P73

 
With a world of 'look-alike' cameras out there, at least Casio is offering a product with a unique feature. If the image quality is good, and it at least has a decent ISO400, this could be the tool of choice for many a sports photographer.

I wonder what the buffer size is?

It didn't mention anything about a tracking AF that can keep up with moving subjects at 60fps. That would certainly be useful.
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If the 6mp image is any good, think of what this 60fps camera will do to the sports action market.... plus it has a "pre-shot" buffer, or whatever it is called, which actually is buffering up images BEFORE you press the shutter. NO MORE SHUTTER LAG for consumer cameras. Put this in the hands of a proficient soccer parent and say bye-bye to a lot of pro sports action photographers.

As a professinal photographer myself, like I said: if the 6 mp image is half way decent, I'll put one in my arsenal of tools!
 
I can see the same thing, you could not only analyze the swing itself, but might be able to put it near the ball itself and be able to see the face at contact....very interesting applications at 300fps
 
I'm hopeful that it has good signal-to-noise ratio. 6mp with 1/1.8" CMOS sensor. Glad they didn't try to go for 999mp or something. If properly executed (and that's a very big if), this could have very good image quality.
 
here earlier this year. This is a golfer's dream camera! The ability to see their swing (very fast) slowed down without paying for very costly lessons to get access to this kind of slow motion!
 
I'm not aware of any although in case you didn't know, many current Casio cameras offer Past Movie mode.
 
Well I imagine if you stacked 2 or 3 adjacent images covering a period of about 1/100th second I'm guessing noise wouldn't exactly be a problem...so image quality could be outstanding.

Paul
 
I think Casio is trying to boost the sales of high capacity memory cards !! LOL
How many minutes of 300fps video can you fit on 1GB ?

I wonder if this is still using MJPEG for video compression ? I'd say from the demo videos it must be which means data rates of 20MB per second ... is this feasible for SD cards? To create 300fps VGA video you have to capture and downsize the whole image for each frame... so I imagine the write speed of the memory is the limiting factor ?

Having said all that I'd be the first to buy one if the price was right. Those demo videos are awesome. I've often wished I had high speed video to use at work, but when I looked into it a couple of years ago it was way too expensive.

One thing I did learn in my exploration of commercial high speed cameras is that you need a lot of light cause at 300fps your shutter speed has to be at least 1/300s. You'd need ISO sensitivities of 6400 to achieve this in anything but bright sunlight. They must be binning the pixels like the recent Oly's with 6400 ISO ?

Cool stuff, when can I get one ? :-)
 
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