Canon compete with Sigma for large sensor compacts market
Posted on July 16, 2007 by Mark
Reported over the weekend, Canon are building a 55 billion yen ($451 million) factory in Japan to double its production capacity of image sensors used in digital cameras. The significance of this is that Canon will be manufacturing complementary metal oxide semiconductors (CMOS) sensors for both Digital SLRs and compact digital cameras.
In the past Canon have always used CCD sensors (made by Sony I think) in their compact cameras, so the move to homemade CMOS sensors (which generally give better quality images) could be quite significant. Given the huge interest by photographers in the Sigma DP1 (the first compact digital camera to have an APS-C sized sensor), I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Canon try and move into this market and create compact cameras with much larger CMOS sensors than is normal.
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