Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]More companies are manufacturing sensors. Cypress has just come out with an APS size sensor: http://www.cypress.com/portal/server.pt?space=CommunityPage&control=SetCommunity&CommunityID=209&PageID=259&fid=206&rpn=CYIHDSC9000AA http://tinyurl.com/aq8gf There is really not much on the site that isn't listed below: CMOS technology, 9 megapixel, APS size (23.3x15.5mm) What is interesting is that Cypress apparently sees a market for this. Scott McLoughlin wrote: > Makes sense to me. What doesn't make sense is why more companies > aren't then manufacturing more sensors. Business abhors a vacuum, as > it were. Certainly in other areas of semiconductor design and fabrication > (and associated supporting chipsets, firmware and the like) there is no > shortage of companies - and plenty of venture capital to start new ones. > > What is the $$ volume of the camera industry (consumer, commercial, > industrial)? If it's relatively small, that might explain the > differences with > the rest of the (huge) chip industry. > > Scott > > Don Dory wrote: > > >Scott, > >Sony is trying this sort of with the R1. It is the first of the all in > >one's to use an APS-C sensor. Possibly a little bigger than what you > >asked > >for but it is a start. > > > >As an aside, one of my friends who shoots "fine art" still uses a Contax > >T2 > >for his slice of life images. He holds it in the palm of his hand and > >trips > >it with his thumb. > > > >One of the issues is that APS-C sensor production is relatively limited so > >no one has risked the "image" camera. At some point when the sensor wars > >settle down and we have generic sensors that a manufacturer could specify > >for use in a luxury camera. How easy life was and the choices available > >when 35mm film was still a medium of choice. > > > >Don > >don.dory@gmail.com > > > > > >On 1/15/06, Scott McLoughlin <scott@adrenaline.com> wrote: > > > > > >>When will camera manufacturers finally begin to address this quality/size > >>ratio issue with digital cameras? In addition to Leica's, in fairly > >>recent years, > >>film technology gave us oodles of nice, very, very high quality film P&S > >>cameras from many manufacturers- you know, Contax T3's, Leica CM's > >>and the like (pic your favorite). > >> > >>Yet we still don't have pocketable digicams (AF or RF ) with big APS or > >>larger sensors and world class, reasonably fast fixed focal length > >>optics. > >>Heck, my first "real camera" Canonet I received as a 12 year old had a > >>f1.7 lens or so, IIRC. > >> > >>Yeah, a very high quality small digital camera will not be a "Best Buy" > >>kind > >>of mass market camera, but then neither were the very high quality small > >>film cameras. But if there was a market for the quality small film > >>cameras, > >>why not with digital? > >> > >>Scott > >> > >>Jonathan Borden wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>What keeps me with the M6 (at least for the next year) is a couple of > >>>factors: > >>> > >>>1) the quality/size ratio -- you can compare an M6/film image against > >>>a DSLR but compact digital cameras don't really approach the image > >>>quality of an M6 and film. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Leica Users Group. > >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Leica Users Group. > >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information