<NEWS> Canon ahead of the curve with CMOS!

[CyberDyneSystems]

From photo marketing magazine;

Seems the CMOS is the wave of the future!

Advances in CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) sensor chips are producing many of the more advanced digital cameras, including the groundbreaking 6.3-megapixel Canon EOS Digital Rebel, the 11.1-megapixel Canon EOS-1Ds, and the 13.89-megapixel Kodak DCS Pro 14n SLRs. In addition to providing lower power requirements than CCD sensors, CMOS can efficiently integrate signal processing functions on the same silicon imaging chip, making CMOS sensors more cost efficient than CCD technology.
Sensor designers are “stitching” segments of CMOS chips together to create larger image sensors that produce extremely detailed, high-resolution pictures. This is an advantageous approach for manufacturing professional studio camera sensors and other large imaging array applications. Watch for additional developments in this technology that bring new solutions for camera designs, and perhaps finally tip the scales to CMOS sensors rather than competing CCD imaging chips.

[theflyingkiwi]

now if they could only make the processing from the CMOS imager to the buffer faster so they could make camera take 8 or more frames a sec

I was told by a friend that this is the reason why the 1Ds can only do 3 frames a sec, because it is a cmos imager

[PaulB]

Wait, please wait for PMA2004.

[RichardtheSane]

I was told by a friend that this is the reason why the 1Ds can only do 3 frames a sec, because it is a cmos imager

More likely down to the huge file sizesthat an 11 megapixel sensor creates. They could put a huge buffer in there and then the lockout time would be hours as it wrote the files to CF :)

[CyberDyneSystems]

now if they could only make the processing from the CMOS imager to the buffer faster so they could make camera take 8 or more frames a sec

I was told by a friend that this is the reason why the 1Ds can only do 3 frames a sec, because it is a cmos imager

It's more of an "at that time" thing.. the 1Ds with it's 11MP sensor is perhaps a bad example,. but on the flip side this IS why the 1D used a CCD,.. so it COULD ge the 8FPS it offers... "at that time" they could not make an 8FPS CMOS for the 1D affordably.

It's been what? Three years now?

Things change.

As my favorite Comic Book Superheros allways say after returning from the dead,

"time heals all wounds"

[theflyingkiwi]

yes that is ture, 3 years is along time in this day an age. If someone told me 3 years ago that I would own a DSLR camera I would have told them to jump in a lake

and know I am looking at spending more money on it.

:shock:

since I am not going to be up grading to a new camera anytime soon, but like any red blooded guy on this planet I am looking forward the new tech that the camers (might) have this year.

the reason I say might is that you never know. just when you think the bad guy is dead, they always come back stronger and wanting revenge :twisted: