Nikon interview at Dpreview gives us little hope about a “serious” mirrorless system camera launch

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Dpreview interviewed Nikon managers at Photokina. Here are a couple of info:

  1. “For now we’ll keep Nikon 1 as usual.’ The sudden focus on KeyMission doesn’t take away from this“
  2. “Some manufacturers have tried to enter the DSLR market with their mirrorless camera or something. Our standpoint is different. Because our product mix covers full-frame and APS-C DSLR and the Nikon 1, these three product categories mean we offer to the full lineup and we receive each customer’s good reactions.“

Nikon makes it sounds as like they don’t need to make an APS-C or FF mirrorless system camera. But we know from past interviews that Nikon always is very “conservative” when it comes to information sharing. So let’s hope this is just an interview that “hides” their real FF mirrorless intentions…

Canon develops a new Large-Format CMOS sensor with Global Shutter!

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Canon will soon present a new Super 35mm 4K CMOS sensor having the following key features:

  • Global Shutter
  • High Resolution (exact Megapixel count has not been disclosed yet)
  • 4 pixel readout for high dynamic range (92dB at a standard 30fps frame rate)

Above you can see a comparison between the new Canon sensor with Global Shutter compared with a conventional Rolling Shutter sensor. It is yet unclear when the new sensor will be production ready.

via Image Sensor World.

Thanks Barry!

New Q2 financial reports released: Bad news for Canon and Fuji

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Both Canon (PDF here) and Fuji (PDF here) released their Q2 financial report. Both companies had declining sales and earnings caused by different factors like compact camera sales drop, YEN appreciation. And both companies forecast now expect a further increase in sales and revenue. The one good news for Fuji is that they had strong X-T2 sales.

Easy to expects similar results from the other companies too. The question is still the same: Who will survive this constant decline?

 

This is the Chronos mirrorless C-mount camera that can shoot at 650fps!

This is the Chronos 1.4 homebrew high-speed camera. it has a C-mount and shoots up to 650fps. And the good news is that it costs $2,500 only (which is really impressive!). The camera will be soon launched on Kickstarter and the specs are:

Chronos High Speed Camera v1.4 Specs:

  • 1.4 Gigapixel per second throughput
  • 2/3? sensor, C and CS mount lens, Color or Mono
  • 1280×1024 1050fps Max Res Frame Rate!
  • Lower resolutions at higher rates, eg. 720p 1500fps, 1024×576 2300fps,  640×480 4400fps, 640×360 5900fps, 640×120 17,000fps
  • 100% self contained, smartphone-like UI, no laptop needed!
  • 8GB, 16GB, possibly 32GB image buffer (RAM). 4, 8, or 16s record time.
  • Save videos to compressed H264 or uncompressed/RAW
  • Storage: SD card, USB thumb drive, SATA hard drive, remote via Ethernet to computer or file server
  • On-board RAW processing (demosaic type,color matrix, etc)
  • Readily available EN-EL4a Nikon Li-ION Battery Pack!

More info about the camera at hispeedcams.com/tag/homebrew/