Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George, I think the sensor choice has more to do with what technology is available with what price point at that time more than anything else. Obviously there are technical advantages either way but once you select a sensor supplier (or in Canon's case, invest in a particular sensor technology), you stick with it and design the best camera you can (or so we hope) given the other constraints. For the MF back, the production numbers are low and it is probably not cost effective for an existing back manufacturer to switch sensor tech. It's also possible that one cannot scale up a CMOS sensor, but that's just speculation. I recall reading an article on the originally Cannon 1Ds that the sensor was actually two half sized sensor banked together. As an aside, this means that they can make 40 Megapixel 24x36mmm sensor right now, just put 4x 19 Megapixels 4/3 sensors together. The price would still be cheaper than the Canon 1Ds MKIII. They will need a processing engine 4x faster, but that's just computers :-) At 12:15 PM 3/10/2008, Lottermoser George wrote: >... >Can't help but wonder: with the relative cost savings of the CMOS why >we don't see it being used in the medium format world - it would seem >that those folks could have a true 6x6 CMOS back for the cost of some >of the non-FF backs???? > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)