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Angående att Canon är något akterseglade just nu vad det gäller sensorer.
BOB är liksom flera andra Fossum, Sheehy, Emil, Joseph W mfl duktiga inom sensorteknologi och läsvärda om någon är intresserad. Vi skall inte heller glömma vår eminente Joakim Bengtsson här på fotosidan.
Huruvida siffror stämmer låter jag vara osagt men meningen // I rather doubt whether Canon has the resource available to develop anything similar. Personally, I think canon's best bet is to get out of the sensor business and buy from Sony // är lite talande om hur fort utvecklingen går.
Vad säger eller tror du Joakim , finns det en viss "sanningshalt " i BOBs egen spekulation eller kan Canon fortfarande eller är deras storhet förbi?
Canon har varit ledande sedan 2003 vad det gäller cmos men nu tycks eran vara över om man ser till resultat
Bob:
My own thought is that Canon is in nearly as much of a squeeze as Sigma with respect to sensors. Sony really is the Killer Shark in the sensor market, Compared to it, Canon is just a Kwik Save Haddock, and Sigma, well, just a couple of cells of plankton. I looked up the figures the other day. Sony owns 70% of the camera sensor market (not including phones, which are the really big market++), when you look at the relative size of the DSLR market and Canon's share, you find that Canon has about 2%. 35 times the volume buys a whole load more development resource. The Exmor sensors are incredibly sophisticated mixed mode (analog and digital) chips where both the analog and digital parts have to perform exceptionally, and that isn't easy to get right. it needs a multi-skilled design team and a lot of simulation and debugging, because there is nothing that gets in the way of clean analog signal quite like high clock speed digital circuitry. I rather doubt whether Canon has the resource available to develop anything similar. Personally, I think canon's best bet is to get out of the sensor business and buy from Sony, Sony would certainly be pleased to have them as a customer (for DSLR's, of course most Canon P&S already use Sony sensors). They could always utilise their fab lines doing foundry work for Sigma.