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I noticed that there are only limited sensor manufacturers for digital
cameras. For the known brands such as Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Panasonic/ Lumix, they are basically supplied by 4 companies: Canon (for Canon cameras), Matsu****a/National/Panasonic for Panasonic brands, Fuji for Fuji cameras and Sony (for others including Nikon, Sony, Pentax and Samsung). I am surprised that Nikon is using Sony's sensor in all of their DSLR (except for Nikon D1 and D2H, which is manufactured by Nikon). I wonder whether all of the sensors made by these four suppliers are generally the same (Just like coke or pepsi)? Any superiority among the others in term of their function? Has any of the manufacturers made better or known to supply better sensor type than the others (i.e. CMOS vs CCD?). I also noticed tha Sigma DSLR's sensor is made by Feveon. What sensors are in Kodak cameras? |
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wrote in message ups.com... I noticed that there are only limited sensor manufacturers for digital cameras. For the known brands such as Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Panasonic/ Lumix, they are basically supplied by 4 companies: Canon (for Canon cameras), Matsu****a/National/Panasonic for Panasonic brands, Fuji for Fuji cameras and Sony (for others including Nikon, Sony, Pentax and Samsung). I am surprised that Nikon is using Sony's sensor in all of their DSLR (except for Nikon D1 and D2H, which is manufactured by Nikon). I wonder whether all of the sensors made by these four suppliers are generally the same (Just like coke or pepsi)? Any superiority among the others in term of their function? Has any of the manufacturers made better or known to supply better sensor type than the others (i.e. CMOS vs CCD?). I also noticed tha Sigma DSLR's sensor is made by Feveon. What sensors are in Kodak cameras? First, Foveon: http://www.digitaldingus.com/news/20...lectronics.php Second, it does not much matter from a consumer point of view. Third, quality is a hop-scotch game. Tune in and be amazed at the changes. Fourth, it is the whole camera (like a car ... not too often that the transmission makes a huge difference). |
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On Sun, 06 May 2007 19:32:08 -0400, Charles wrote:
wrote in message ups.com... I noticed that there are only limited sensor manufacturers for digital cameras. For the known brands such as Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Panasonic/ Lumix, they are basically supplied by 4 companies: Canon (for Canon cameras), Matsu****a/National/Panasonic for Panasonic brands, Fuji for Fuji cameras and Sony (for others including Nikon, Sony, Pentax and Samsung). I am surprised that Nikon is using Sony's sensor in all of their DSLR (except for Nikon D1 and D2H, which is manufactured by Nikon). I wonder whether all of the sensors made by these four suppliers are generally the same (Just like coke or pepsi)? Any superiority among the others in term of their function? Has any of the manufacturers made better or known to supply better sensor type than the others (i.e. CMOS vs CCD?). I also noticed tha Sigma DSLR's sensor is made by Feveon. What sensors are in Kodak cameras? First, Foveon: http://www.digitaldingus.com/news/20...lectronics.php Second, it does not much matter from a consumer point of view. Third, quality is a hop-scotch game. Tune in and be amazed at the changes. Fourth, it is the whole camera (like a car ... not too often that the transmission makes a huge difference). That's true, but you certainly don't want to buy a car which is known to have transmission problems. And I certainly hesitate to buy the first year model when a manufacturer changes technology significantly - e.g. last year when Dodge came out with Caliber - CVT. |
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Greetings Animarac,
Actually, Kodak makes their own sensors. We also make them for some other camera manufacturers. You can review details on Kodak sensors, which are pretty good. You will enjoy the read. http://www.kodak.com/US/en/dpq/site/...S/name/ISSHome Talk to you soon. Ron Baird Eastman Kodak Company wrote in message ups.com... I noticed that there are only limited sensor manufacturers for digital cameras. For the known brands such as Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Panasonic/ Lumix, they are basically supplied by 4 companies: Canon (for Canon cameras), Matsu****a/National/Panasonic for Panasonic brands, Fuji for Fuji cameras and Sony (for others including Nikon, Sony, Pentax and Samsung). I am surprised that Nikon is using Sony's sensor in all of their DSLR (except for Nikon D1 and D2H, which is manufactured by Nikon). I wonder whether all of the sensors made by these four suppliers are generally the same (Just like coke or pepsi)? Any superiority among the others in term of their function? Has any of the manufacturers made better or known to supply better sensor type than the others (i.e. CMOS vs CCD?). I also noticed tha Sigma DSLR's sensor is made by Feveon. What sensors are in Kodak cameras? |
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That's true, but you certainly don't want to buy a car which is known to have transmission problems. And I certainly hesitate to buy the first year model when a manufacturer changes technology significantly - e.g. last year when Dodge came out with Caliber - CVT. Please cite a recent example in digital photography. |
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"Charles" wrote in message ... That's true, but you certainly don't want to buy a car which is known to have transmission problems. And I certainly hesitate to buy the first year model when a manufacturer changes technology significantly - e.g. last year when Dodge came out with Caliber - CVT. Please cite a recent example in digital photography. My Minolta phi has just had its sensor replaced free of charge because Sony made a lot of 5mp sensors for just about every manufacture cept Fuji that have developed a failure. Its old hat now but it was a good indication of many manufactures use the same sensor. |
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On May 6, 7:32 pm, "Charles" wrote:
wrote in message ups.com... I noticed that there are only limited sensor manufacturers for digital cameras. For the known brands such as Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Panasonic/ Lumix, they are basically supplied by 4 companies: Canon (for Canon cameras), Matsu****a/National/Panasonic for Panasonic brands, Fuji for Fuji cameras and Sony (for others including Nikon, Sony, Pentax and Samsung). I am surprised that Nikon is using Sony's sensor in all of their DSLR (except for Nikon D1 and D2H, which is manufactured by Nikon). I wonder whether all of the sensors made by these four suppliers are generally the same (Just like coke or pepsi)? Any superiority among the others in term of their function? Has any of the manufacturers made better or known to supply better sensor type than the others (i.e. CMOS vs CCD?). I also noticed tha Sigma DSLR's sensor is made by Feveon. What sensors are in Kodak cameras? First, Foveon:http://www.digitaldingus.com/news/20...lectronics.php Second, it does not much matter from a consumer point of view. Third, quality is a hop-scotch game. Tune in and be amazed at the changes. Nothing radical is likely to happen. Sensor physics has been static for ages. The only thing they've improved on is how fast they can get the data out and how well they can process it. |
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On May 6, 11:44 pm, "Roger N. Clark (change username to rnclark)"
wrote: wrote: I noticed that there are only limited sensor manufacturers for digital cameras. For the known brands such as Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Panasonic/ Lumix, they are basically supplied by 4 companies: Canon (for Canon cameras), Matsu****a/National/Panasonic for Panasonic brands, Fuji for Fuji cameras and Sony (for others including Nikon, Sony, Pentax and Samsung). I am surprised that Nikon is using Sony's sensor in all of their DSLR (except for Nikon D1 and D2H, which is manufactured by Nikon). I wonder whether all of the sensors made by these four suppliers are generally the same (Just like coke or pepsi)? Any superiority among the others in term of their function? Has any of the manufacturers made better or known to supply better sensor type than the others (i.e. CMOS vs CCD?). I also noticed tha Sigma DSLR's sensor is made by Feveon. What sensors are in Kodak cameras? CCD and CMOS sensors are pretty mature technology. All good digital cameras, from small sensor P&S to large sensor DSLRs have noise dominated by photons noise (Poisson statistics), and as a result the major performance difference between sensors is due to the size of each pixel. See:http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedeta...ensor_analysis (Kodak makes sensor too.) Kodak is fascinating. They make some of the finest high-end sensors for scientific and medium format cameras, they also make cheapo CMOS sensors for cell phones and low end P&S cameras. But they threw in the towel and watched the DSLR market become the most lucrative in photography. What a group of losers. Roger |
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