Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Canon, Samsung Announce Camcorder Sensors

Business Wire: Samsung announces a camcorder with 5MP 1/4.1-inch BSI CMOS sensor "which records with twice the sensitivity of normal CMOS sensors, dramatically reducing noise and distortion while also enhancing recording quality in low-light conditions, so great quality video can be captured in any situation".

The sensor appears to belong to 1.4um pixel-based S5K4E family, such as S5K4E5 presented in this Youtube video:



Business Wire: Canon unveils its HD CMOS Pro 1/3-inch sensor intended for consumer camcorders. The sensor has native 1080p resolution as it allows 61% larger pixels with 280% improvement in DR and 25% improvement in low light sensitivity over the company's previous generation of camcorder sensors:

Posted by Vladimir Koifman at 17:23

2 comments:

  1. petr marekJanuary 5, 2011 at 11:27 PM

    Dear Canon, Panasonic GH2 has a "crop TELE mode" with native resolution 1920x1080, which uses middle area of the 4/3 sensor, which is still bigger (equivalent between 1/2 to 2/3-inch sensor) with bigger photodiodes than your 1/3 sensor. Than it´s also a fantastic camera with millions of other features, it´s already on the market and it costs half the price of your eunuch camcorder. Good luck!

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 6, 2011 at 4:23 AM

    Pansonic Lumix G1 has pixel size of 4.3um (http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/en/Our-publications/DxOMark-reviews/DxOMark-review-for-the-Panasonic-Lumix-G1)

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