Canon CMOS for compact cameras

[Admin]

http://www.dpreview.com/news/images/canon_logo.gifThanks to Jeff for the heads up on this, according to an article posted yesterday by Reuters, Canon is to invest 55 billion Yen ($451 million) in a new CMOS production factory at its existing site in the Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo. The interesting snippet in this news article comes from the following statement: "The CMOS chips will be used in both single lens reflex (SLR) models as well as in some compact models. Canon's compact cameras have to date used a different type of image sensor called a charge-coupled device (CCD)." This is interesting from an image quality point of view but will also be big news for Canon's existing sensor suppliers such as Sony.

From DPReview : More... (http://www.dpreview.com/news/0707/07071501canoncmoscompact.asp)

[Mike Fulton]

This presents some interesting possibilities: less expensive DSLRs and really good, high-quality Point-and-Shoot cameras with the capability to produce images to rival the DSLRs.

I can't wait.