Author Topic: Panasonic announces a brand new 14 megapixel sensor (Read 2044 times)

voyager · « **on:** May 11, 2011, 10:51:11 PM »

(Not the sensor used in the Panasonic G3)

http://www.43rumors.com/surprise-panasonic-announces-a-14-megapixel-sensor/

“Current high-sensitivity MOS image sensors suppress unevenness in brightness. CCDs have low color-mixing characteristics that suppress color unevenness. The rapidly expanding market for digital cameras with higher image quality and a slimmer body has resulted in greater demand for a stable supply of image sensors that offer both high sensitivity and uniform picture quality.

Panasonic has achieved both MOS image sensor’s high sensitivity and uniform picture quality using the new MOS image sensor technologies, enabling digital cameras and camcorders as well as cameras incorporated in smartphones and other mobile terminals to be slimmer with higher sensitivity and improved picture quality.

The new MOS image sensor has the following features:

-The fine process technologies provide a sensitivity of 3050 el/lx/sec/μm2, the industry’s highest as a MOS image sensor.
-The new light-focusing structure significantly expands the incident light angle, ensuring uniform and high picture quality, as well as produces a slimmer camera.
-The simple manufacturing process is based on the current MOS image sensor structure, ensuring a stable supply.
The new MOS image sensor has been created using the following Panasonic technologies:
-The 32 and 45 nm (nanometers) leading-edge semiconductor process technologies lower the wiring layer profile, expand the opening area, and increase the photo diode volume.
-The low color-mixing characteristics are enhanced by light-focusing structure design technologies that use a three-dimensional wave optics design to minimize light leakage at the structural boundaries.
-Image sensor mass-production technologies allow stable production of MOS image sensors with high picture-quality.”

lisandra · « **Reply #1 on:** May 12, 2011, 10:06:24 AM »

doesnt say what size...if its 4/3 it would be interesting to see where its gonna go

adash · « **Reply #2 on:** May 13, 2011, 10:27:55 AM »

Argh, we don't need the megapixels to increase, but the ISO performance....

watkins · « **Reply #3 on:** May 13, 2011, 11:46:35 AM »

Quote from: adash on May 13, 2011, 10:27:55 AM

Argh, we don't need the megapixels to increase, but the ISO performance....

Couldn't agree more with that.

adash · « **Reply #4 on:** May 13, 2011, 11:55:14 AM »

This is a compact camera sensor (based on that PDF: www.physorg.com/pdf224432047.pdf )
It's a MOS image sensor (MN34110) for digital cameras, a diagonal 7.7 mm (1/2.33-inch type) sensor with 14 megapixel effective resolution.
Really, I don't need 14MPix in a compact camera. Do you?

voyager · « **Reply #5 on:** May 14, 2011, 03:13:23 PM »

I recently noticed that as well, I thought this was a Live MOS Micro Four Thirds sensor.

lisandra · « **Reply #6 on:** May 14, 2011, 09:44:21 PM »

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The fine process technologies provide a sensitivity of 3050 el/lx/sec/μm2, the industry’s highest as a MOS image sensor.

Soooo why not make a 4/3s sensor with THIS standard?

adash · « **Reply #7 on:** May 14, 2011, 11:51:19 PM »

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Soooo why not make a 4/3s sensor with THIS standard?

They will...

peterb666 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 15, 2011, 05:59:19 AM »

Quote from: adash on May 13, 2011, 10:27:55 AM

Argh, we don't need the megapixels to increase, but the ISO performance....

Agree.

lisandra · « **Reply #9 on:** May 15, 2011, 05:49:21 PM »

Quote from: adash on May 14, 2011, 11:51:19 PM

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Soooo why not make a 4/3s sensor with THIS standard?
They will...

Lets hope they dont ruin the GH3 (if its were its going) by stuffing 34 MP on the sensor

Em5 Pete · « **Reply #10 on:** May 15, 2011, 05:58:44 PM »

Quote from: lisandra on May 15, 2011, 05:49:21 PM

Quote from: adash on May 14, 2011, 11:51:19 PM
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Soooo why not make a 4/3s sensor with THIS standard?
They will...
Lets hope they dont ruin the GH3 (if its were its going) by stuffing 34 MP on the sensor

That's the point, just when they figure out the technological know how to deliver great High ISO, they want to ADD MPs and lose any ground they made... I hope they don't either, 16mp-20mp is more than enough for anyone IMHO.

lisandra · « **Reply #11 on:** May 15, 2011, 06:18:28 PM »

to me 16 is quite enough, sony going to 24 on aps c and canon going on 36-38 on full frame might make panny do something stupid

voyager · « **Reply #12 on:** May 15, 2011, 06:19:15 PM »

My computer has a hard enough time dealing with 12 megapixels.

n2hhr · « **Reply #13 on:** May 15, 2011, 08:00:48 PM »

Quote from: voyager on May 15, 2011, 06:19:15 PM

My computer has a hard enough time dealing with 12 megapixels.

You are a young person born into the computer generation! Take a swiss army knife and go out into the woods and build a bigger faster computer!

adash · « **Reply #14 on:** May 15, 2011, 08:42:06 PM »

Quote from: voyager on May 15, 2011, 06:19:15 PM

My computer has a hard enough time dealing with 12 megapixels.

Mine performed just fine with a 35MPix flatbed scan from my previous pinhole experiment.

lisandra · « **Reply #15 on:** May 15, 2011, 08:55:00 PM »

Quote from: n2hhr on May 15, 2011, 08:00:48 PM

Quote from: voyager on May 15, 2011, 06:19:15 PM
My computer has a hard enough time dealing with 12 megapixels.

You are a young person born into the computer generation! Take a swiss army knife and go out into the woods and build a bigger faster computer!

While you build that go get something with 7 cores, 6GB RAM and a ATI card on it. Also, call me when youre building said computer, I have a few requests...

Em5 Pete · « **Reply #16 on:** May 26, 2011, 02:31:04 PM »

My i5 4 core 2.27ghtz handles 100mb files just fine... but much larger, and my editing software takes a little longer to do things. If I had 8gig of RAM (one day), it could handle much larger files... I scan my film to 65-80mb TIFFS on average.

Panasonic announces a brand new 14 megapixel sensor