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Could This Spell the End of the Sensor Wars?!


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<p>Did anyone else notice this? This new technology is cheaper and offers four times the performance as current sensors: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dpreview.com/news/1003/10032201quantumfilm.asp" target="_blank">http://www.dpreview.com/news/1003/10032201quantumfilm.asp</a> If the cost savings are that much, it could end the sensor-size wars. Might as well just go full-frame and be done with it. Be interesting to see how it unfolds!<br>

Your thoughts?</p>

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<p>These technology announcements are for those foolish enough to believe that what will work on a test bench will work when mass-produced. Unless you're a product developer, it's silly to speculate on these announcements until a product is out. It's even sillier to post about it multiple times.</p>
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<p>The dpreview article indicates only prototypes exist with sample chips going into production near the end of 2010, but there's <strong>NO SAMPLE IMAGES AVAILABLE </strong>and they already have numerous patents already in place!</p>

<p>How does that happen? If you have a patent don't you have to have proof that it's a new technology and not just a copy of a previous technology? How can they claim superior image quality without having samples to back it up?</p>

<p>Geez! They might as well have come out claimed they invented a time machine.</p>

<p>This sounds more like bait for investors.</p>

 

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<p>Pixel wars are like the former horsepower wars of times past. Lighter more agile cars made the HP war ridiculous. The pixel density is particularly important and the real progress now in many digital cameras is being made through superior designed-for-digital lenses, at least in the larger formats (medium format, but also in smaller cameras). Many lenses offered for digital cameras use lens formulas optimised for film cameras.</p>
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<p>Thanks, Tom, for those wikipedia links. </p>

<p>I guess that explains that. I still want to see image samples showing the advances in image quality from this new technology. Looks like I'm going to have to wait and see it on a mobile phone. </p>

<p>Oh joy!</p>

<p>Regardless, whatever I see from that device better reach out and slap me in the face before I buy into it.</p>

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