Sony today announced the Exmor RS IMX230, a CMOS camera sensor for high-end smartphones. The sensor captures 21 megapixels at f/2.4 and uses a stacked design that Sony claims keeps the footprint small and adds functionality. The IMX230 has an onboard image plane phase detection AF signal processing function that helps the sensor track and […]
Sony plans to make a large investment its in imaging business and will increase production of CMOS sensors for mobile devices. The company will spend as much as $345 million to improve the capacity of its sensor-making facilities. Sony has already purchased several new manufacturing plants. The company currently makes about 60,000 sensors a month. […]
Samsung has rolled out an updated version of the NX300M mirrorless camera with a 180-degree flip-screen. The 3.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen display on the previous model couldn’t rotate beyond 90-degrees, with the new model targeting users keen on taking high-quality selfies. However, beyond the improved flexibility of the display, Samsung has retained same specifications for the […]
Sony has began shipping the Bloggie Duo HD. First displyed at CES, the pocket camcorder is unique in having a two-inch LCD on its back to help with video blogging and anything else that requires a self-portrait. It stands near the top of the category regardless with 1080P, stabilized video recording and five-megapixel still images […]
Sony has developed a small, phone-sized 17.7-megapixel camera sensor that would overcome much of the performance bottlenecks of earlier technology. The technique, described by Nikkei, can process several pixels’ input in parallel and takes up to 75 percent less time to generate the final image. At 34.8Gbps of bandwidth, it’s about five times faster than […]
Pentax has announced an overhaul for its least expensive K series – the K-x Now using the Japanese naming scheme, the K-x becomes the least expensive DSLR ever to shoot video and records 720p at 24 frames per second. The K-x sports a 12-megapixel CMOS sensor, up from the from a 10-megapixel CCD which […]
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